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silk-stocking
CIDE DICTIONARY
silk-stocking, a.
Wearing silk stockings (which among men were formerly worn chiefly by the luxurious or aristocratic); hence, elegantly dressed; aristocratic; luxurious; -- chiefly applied to men, often by way of reproach.
"[They] will find their levees crowded with silk-stocking gentry, but no yeomanry; an army of officers without soldiers."
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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