SILK STOCKING Synonyms: 136 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

ˈsilk-ˈstä-kiŋ

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having goods, property, or money in abundance the luxurious resort caters exclusively to a silk-stocking clientele

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of high birth, rank, or station detectives assigned to investigate crimes among the silk-stocking types found on the city's gold coast

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noun

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a wealthy person made her reputation as an interior designer for the silk stockings of Nob Hill

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Recent Examples of silk-stocking

Adjective

The sprawling, silk-stocking firm has helped foster the careers of many young conservative lawyers. —

Dan Sullivan, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2026 Snaking through the salons of an old Paris mansion, the circuitous catwalk is marked with bundles of spindly wood branches and vibrant floral blooms, adornments that add an ethereal air to the silk-stocking grandeur. —

Courtney Crowder, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2025 The space, built as the Seventh Regiment Armory in 1861, once housed a National Guard troupe known as the silk-stocking unit, whose members came from some of the city’s most influential families (think Vanderbilts and Roosevelts). —

Barbara Schuler, Travel + Leisure, 1 Sep. 2023

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Bjork, however, went all-in on the look, posing on the cover of Vogue Scandinavia in the blurred tulle Margiela gown with a merkin wig, fashioned from real human hair and painstakingly embroidered to the crotch of an underlaid silk stocking bodysuit. —

Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2025 Cousin’s body was sprawled on the bed — nude with a silk stocking tied tightly around her neck. —

Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 15 June 2025 Underneath are layers of newspaper clippings about racist terrorism, with a silk stocking stretched over them—an allusion to the girls murdered in the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing. —

Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 29 May 2025 Related Articles Anthony Vaccarello told WWD that the brand’s totally translucent silk stocking extravaganza for fall 2024 was inspired by ideals of fragility, something that surely strikes home for both musicians. —

Violet Goldstone, WWD, 25 Sep. 2024 Tweed waistcoats, felt hats, and silk stockings abound. —

Bob Sorokanich, Robb Report, 17 Sep. 2023 Early sales mostly cut into the market for cheaper rayon and cotton stockings, however, giving silk stocking makers time to make the transition. —

Virginia Postrel, Twin Cities, 1 Nov. 2019 The garments hearken to past centuries when the lines between gender were not so fixed, when men wore ruffles and silk stockings and everyone wore wigs and powdered their hair. —

Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2019 In the 1920s, skirts rose to knee-length, and flappers rolled their silk stockings down to below the knee to flash a bit of skin. —

Julie Washington, cleveland.com, 17 Sep. 2019

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Batula, 34, and Wilson, 28, are part of an ensemble cast on the Bravo show, which follows a group of friends sharing a house for the summer in the Hamptons, a wealthy enclave on Long Island, New York.

— Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2026
None of the myth’s subsequent retellings include evidence linking any wealthy Jewish families to Adolf Hitler’s lineage.

— Mike Rothschild, Big Think, 31 Mar. 2026