silk-stock|ing

silk-stock|ing
silk-stock|ing «SIHLK STOK ihng», adjective, noun.
–adj.
1. made up of or populated by people of wealth and social prominence (who alone, in an earlier day, could afford to wear silk stockings): »

a silk-stocking clientele, a silk-stocking district.

2. Figurative. elegant; aristocratic: »

a silk-stocking manner.

–n.
1. a well-to-do, elegant man or woman.
2. U.S. a member of the Federalist or (later) Whig parties (to which, in the early 1800's, most well-to-do people belonged).

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