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STOCKING (a diminutive of " stock," post, stump, properly that which is stuck or fixed)

This article appears in Volume V25, Page 937 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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  trousers has superseded knee-breeches, and also by children, are usually styled " socks."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


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