a. [f. STOCKING sb. + -LESS.] Without stockings.
1748. Richardson, Clarissa (1768), VIII. xix. 51. They were all slip-shoed; stockenless some; only under-petticoated all.
1775. S. J. Pratt, Liberal Opin., cxiii. (1783), IV. 62. A little stockingless boy.
1825. [see SHOELESS].
1869. Rossetti, Diary, 28 June, in Athenæum (1882), 15 July, 79/1. I called on Trelawny…. He retains his ancient habit of going stockingless.
1907. C. C. Brown, China in Legend & Story, xvii. 246. His stockingless feet had been thrust into cheap shoes.
