Stockings are thin coverings for each leg separately. A pair of stockings, silk stockings, put on her stockings.
They are separate where tights are joined, which is the whole distinction and the reason both exist. Nylon ones sold out on sight in 1940 and vanished into parachutes during the war. A Christmas stocking is hung for presents.
1nounstockingsThin coverings for each leg separately.
“She wore black stockings with her evening dress.”
stockings is clothing.
stocking comes from stock + ing. Corruption of old plural -en, i.e. stocken, now singular.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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