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stockinet

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English

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Stockinette stitch front

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Etymology

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Alteration of stocking net.[1]

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Noun

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stockinet (countable and uncountable, plural stockinets)

  1. An elastic textile fabric imitating knitting, of which stockings, undergarments, etc., are made.
    • 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 162:
      The black cloth bodies were stuffed, and were sometimes made of stockinet, or old stockings, for everyone wore black ones in those days.

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References

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  1. ^ “stockinet”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

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