openwork stocking
noun1
Historical A type of stocking having decorative gaps in the fabric.
- Perhaps one high heel catching the sunlight, with a bird perched on the end of it; and the other – a stockinged foot, with blood . . . that's dried into the openwork stocking.1935, Emlyn Williams, Night Must Fall:
- It was a picture of a girl, all legs and dress and eyelashes, a well-developed blonde in black openwork stockings and a low bodice, and this particular blonde peeped over a black lace fan.1942, John Steinbeck, The Moon is Down: