hosier

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person who makes or sells stockings, socks, and other hosiery

   Pip visited the hosier to order new stockings for his outfit.

From Middle English hosiere, derived from hose with the occupational suffix -ier. Before hosiery broadened to include socks and knitted legwear, a hosier chiefly made or sold hose and stockings.

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