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1. Wearing silk stockings (which among men were formerly wornchiefly by the luxurious or aristocratic); hence, elegantly dressed;aristocratic; luxurious; -- chiefly applied to men, often by way ofreproach. Source: adambom

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aristocratic luxurious among applied chiefly dressed elegantly formerly hence silk stockings wearing

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silk-cotton tree silk-lined silk-screens

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silk hat silk oak silk serge silk stocking silk tree silk vine silk wood silken silkensides

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