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See also:STOCKING (a diminutive of " stock," See also:post, stump, properly that which is See also:stuck or fixed) , a See also:close-fitting covering for the See also:foot and See also:lower See also:part of the See also:leg, formerly made of See also:cloth but now of See also:wool, See also:silk or See also:cotton See also:thread knitted by See also:hand or See also:woven on a See also:frame (see See also:HOSIERY) . " Stock " being the stump, i.e. the part See also:left when the See also:body is cut off, the word was applied to the whole covering of the lower limbs, which was formerly in one piece, the " upper-See also:stocks " and " nether-stocks " forming the two pieces into which it was subsequently divided, when the upper part became the See also:trunk See also:hose and later See also:knee-breeches, the lower the " stockings." A parallel is found in See also:French; the hose are chausses, the upper part haul de chausses, the stockings bas de chausses, or simply bas . The See also:German Strumpf, See also:stocking, means also a stump, pointing to the See also:original use of the word . See also:Half-stockings, reaching to the lower part of the See also:calf of the leg, and worn by men since the use of the See also:long See also:trousers has superseded knee-breeches, and also by See also:children, are usually styled " socks." This word is an See also:adaptation of Latin soccus, a slipper or See also:light See also:shoe . It was the shoe worn by the actors in See also:Roman See also:comedy—and so was used symbolically of comedy, as " See also:buskin," the high See also:boot or cothurnus, was of tragedy . |
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