- plural of stocking.
stockings
Example Sentences
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He listed the goodies money could buy: sausages, ham, coffee, bacon, soap, ladies’ stockings.
From The Wall Street Journal β Mar. 13, 2026
Women would wear dresses and stockings; men would don suits and hats.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jan. 14, 2026
The other DHS clip is a montage of Yuletide cheer — Santa, elves, stockings, dancing — over a sped-up electro-trash remake of Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas is You.”
From Los Angeles Times β Dec. 23, 2025
"We hope that whoever is lucky enough to win one of the stockings at auction will pass it down as a family heirloom to be treasured for decades to come," she added.
From BBC β Dec. 1, 2025
And women who knew no English at all and would never own a pair of silk stockings moved away from her if she sat next to them on the trolley.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
