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Silk-stocking

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Elegantly dressed; aristocratic; luxurious. archaic, derogatory, not-comparable

    "June 11, 1812, Thomas Jefferson, letter to Elbridge Gerry [They] will find their levees crowded with silk-stocking gentry, but no yeomanry; an army of officers without soldiers."

Etymology

Among men, silk stockings were formerly worn chiefly by the rich.

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