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silk tree | silk vine | silk wood | silk-cotton tree | silk-lined | silk-stocking | silken | silkgrass | silkily | silkiness | silklike

silk-stocking

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Noun Phrase

CIDE DICTIONARY

silk-stockinga. 
     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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