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stockinet|stɒkɪˈnɛt|
Also stockinett(e, stockinnet, stockingett(e, -nette.
[Prob. a perversion (as if f. stocking n. + -et1, -ette) of the older stocking-net: see stocking n. 6 b.]
1. A knitted textile fabric of considerable elasticity used chiefly in the making of undergarments. Also stockinet cloth, stockinet material.
1824–[see 3]. 1862Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 4176, Woollen Manufacturers... [Exhibiting] Elastic stockingetts. 1880Cassell's Fam. Mag. VI. 442 The stockingette material, or elastic cloth,..is being adapted to whole dresses, tunics [etc.]. 1881Ibid. VII. 122 Stockingnette has proved this winter a bad investment. 1890Textile News 20 June, Stockinettes and fancy woollens. 1905Daily News 28 Mar. 12 An important clue was found in the discovery of three masks of black stockingette.
2. A garment made of stockinet. (Short for stockinet pantaloons, shirt.)
1837T. Hook in New Monthly Mag. L. 155 The dancing-master in his stockinets and pumps. 1838Poe Narr. A. G. Pym vii. Wks. 1895 V. 91 The shirt..was a blue stockinet, with large white stripes running across.
b. ? = stocking 1 b. (nonce-use.)
1864Ticknor Life Prescott 201 A full-length of Cortés,..his nether extremities in a sort of stockinet, like the old cavaliers of the sixteenth century.
3. attrib. (or adj.) Made of stockinet.
1824W. Irving T. Trav. II. 28 He wore a pair of dingy-white stockinet pantaloons. 1884Girl's Own Paper 29 Nov. 138/3 The lady working..wears a stockingette jacket. |
