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What does lisle mean?

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Noun
  1. A type of strong cotton thread, or a cloth woven from such thread.
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Lumley thought at that moment less of Evelyn than of lisle Court.
Lisle stockings were compulsory and much disliked as they did not fit well and wrinkled at the ankles.
My uniform was a navy gym frock and blazer, a white blouse, and black lisle or woollen stockings.
She went off to Oxford in the late 1930s in a serviceable tweed suit and thick lisle stockings.
He wore a feather in his hat, doeskin breeches, lisle hose and an iridescent waistcoat.
The tide had ebbed, and he did not even think of her as other than Miss lisle.

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