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silk-stocking

N หรูหรา ฟุ่มเฟือย ru-ra

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SILK-STOCKING

SILK-STOCKING Silk "-stock `ing, a.

Defn: Wearing silk stockings (which among men were formerly worn chiefly by the luxurious or aristocratic ); hence, elegantly dressed; aristocratic; luxurious; -- chiefly applied to men, often by way of reproach.

[They ] will find their levees crowded with silk-stocking gentry, but no yeomanry; an army of officers without soldiers. Jefferson.

New American Oxford Dictionary

silk-stocking

silk-stock ing ▶adjective wealthy; aristocratic: a silk-stocking crowd.

Oxford Dictionary

silk-stocking

silk-stocking ▶adjective N. Amer. wealthy; aristocratic: a silk-stocking district | a silk-stocking crowd.