stockinet
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Alteration of stocking net.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -ɛt
Noun
[edit]stockinet (countable and uncountable, plural stockinets)
- 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.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]elastic textile fabric imitating knitting
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References
[edit]- ^ “stockinet”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
Further reading
[edit]Basic knitted fabrics § Stockinette/stocking stitch and reverse stockinette stitch on Wikipedia.Wikipedia