Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Netting used to catch fish.
- noun A mesh fabric resembling such netting.
- noun Stockings made from such mesh fabric.
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- noun countable A net used to catch fish.
- noun uncountable A
fabric with an opendiamond -shaped structure; normally used forstockings etc - noun countable, usually in plural Stockings made of fishnet fabric.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a net that will enclose fish when it is pulled in
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Examples
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Why then, I wonder, would anyone dress her in fishnet stockings and then COVER 90% of those stockings with what appears to be a terry cloth bath towel and small print?
Exclusive: Final Sex and the City: The Movie Poster « FirstShowing.net 2008
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Does the whole legs in fishnet stockings seem strange to other folks?
Still Doing It aka TBTAM 2008
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I don’t see myself desperately grasping for fame and adulation while shimmying awkwardly in fishnet stockings.
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You can’t even be sartorially ironic about pantyhose: downtown punk chicks wear shredded tights, Harajuku girls wear Hello Kitty knee socks and urban vintage cool hunters reference the 40’s in fishnet stockings.
Today’s post brought to you by the letter P | Her Bad Mother 2006
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It’s not that they’re not SF writers; they’re just not slutty, slatternly Sci-Fi hacks in fishnet tights.
In The Ghetto Hal Duncan 2005
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It’s not that they’re not SF writers; they’re just not slutty, slatternly Sci-Fi hacks in fishnet tights.
Archive 2005-03-01 Hal Duncan 2005
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He spent most of his time working in the fields and woods, most of his evenings at home, often weaving a special kind of fishnet or net-basket from fine, frail strips of cane.
The Lost Girl 1907
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Their new design is based on the "fishnet" NIM, which Shalaev has been studying in his lab for several years.
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I started by adding a sheer undershirt - this happens to be from Coquette and came up when I searched my inventory for "fishnet".
Fashion World of SL 2009
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WMR previously reported that NSA "fishnet" surveillance was used in the take down of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer and Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, as well as political dirt gathering directed against New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, Secretary of State Colin Powell, and then-Senator Joe Biden.
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