'Silk-stocking' definitions:

Definition of 'Silk-stocking'

From: GCIDE
  • Silk-stocking \Silk"-stock`ing\, a. 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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]