Definition of Silk-stacking
Silk"-stock`ing, 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. Jefferson.
Silk"-stock`ing, 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. Jefferson.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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