stirrup stocking
English
Noun
stirrup stocking (plural stirrup stockings)
- (now historical) A type of stocking with no foot, just a strap passing under the foot.
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 232:
- He could let me have a pair of coarse, but clean, stirrup-stockings, if I pleased.
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 232: