Category: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.