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Meaning of silk-stocking | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

Elegantly dressed; aristocratic; luxurious.

archaic, derogatory, not-comparable

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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See also

silken silkier silkiest silkless silklike silky

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