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Meaning of fishnetty | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. Made of fishnet.
  2. Resembling or characteristic of fishnet.

Examples

“Fishnetty fabrics are being hauled in by the yard by out-for-a-catch designers.”
“Stemming the culottes, sand-colored fishnetty tights by Hudson Hosiery.”
“Used to be a bore to buy stockings. Now it’s fun! […] Choose shimmers. Flat mattes. Filmy sheers. Knee-high. Thigh-high. Tights. Opaques. Laces. Fishnetty ones.”
““I come for the music and the exercise,” said one woman who was wearing high boots and a terrific fishnetty kind of top.”
“While everyone else is sartorially correct in leotards and leggings, she is busting out of something fishnetty that looks as if it came from the Pleasure Chest.”
“At this showing of the cult film at midnight tonight, Indecent Exposure, the “official” live touring company, will appear simultaneously on stage, with props, in full-blown, tacky, fishnetty costume and make-up to enhance the cult experience.”
“He also appears on the cover of Manchester Slingback. Twice. In leather queen gear on the front and rampant, fishnetty drag on the back.”
“I thought Frizz would be too shy, but she immediately pulled off the jeans and put on the suspender belt, and a pair of stockings that went with it – black and fishnetty.”
“Today, when I’m sure it hit mid-80s in the city, Margot is wearing a knee-length black dress, fishnetty tights, and clunky shoes.”
“Yesterday she had on a black bra under a pink fishnetty thing.”
“[…] Mrs. Vreeland was wearing […] a cool black sheath of some cobwebby kind of material, sleeveless, and skimming over her body like a second skin. And the black of her hair was pulled into a black snood, fishnetty and smart as could be.”
“This week in far-flung Northern Hemispheric ports the state of some gels’ sartorial gorgeousness is being measured by the exotic nature (or not) of their lacy, meshy, sort of fishnetty tights.”
“Her pale blue-blues glare out from a fishnetty pattern of eyeshadow that raccoons up her face.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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