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Silk-Stocking
Webster's Dictionary
(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.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Silk-Stocking'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/s/silk-stocking.html. 1828.