Silk-stocking

Definition of Silk-stocking

Silk´-stock`ing
a.1.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.
- Jefferson.
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