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What does silk-stocking mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word silk-stocking? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (derogatory) Elegantly dressed; aristocratic; luxurious.
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They were not influenced in the least by the silk-stocking reform view of Mr. Platt.
Didnt suppose you silk-stocking bunch in Sohmer ever had to work!
At first blush, Ms. Maloney, who represents New York's wealthy silk-stocking district, does not seem to fit the profile of a rebel.
I knew both the machine and the silk-stocking reformers fairly well, from many years' close association with them.
Roosevelt needed no broken-windows theory to drive his crusade, just an outraged silk-stocking moralism, and fin de siècle New York City gave him plenty to be outraged about.
Here is your aristocrat, one of your silk-stocking gentry, at your service.

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