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- noun A one-piece article of
lingerie , resemblingstockings orpantyhose but covering thetorso ,legs and sometimes thearms .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Adah Isaacs Menken became famous when she appeared "nude" while strapped to a horse in the melodrama Mazeppa (she was actually wearing a flesh-colored bodystocking).
Adah Isaacs Menken. 2009
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These include the green wool Steampunk outfit for Agatha; somehow getting a sparkly bodystocking for Karolina, and a completely new shirt for William.
I ramble because it's Tuesday camwyn 2007
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Especially thanks to the Noah Wyle of the skin-tight bodystocking set, Joey Cheek.
Cheek Clinches Gold, And Better Yet, People’s Hearts Michelle Collins 2006
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Especially thanks to the Noah Wyle of the skin-tight bodystocking set, Joey Cheek.
Archive 2006-02-01 Michelle Collins 2006
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There's a weirdness to it, too - the bodystocking thing has a bit of this element of borrowing Islamic prohibitions, because there have been and I think continue to be countries in the Middle East where the bare midriff is/was prohibited.
random tummy thoughts... keryx 2005
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I'm curious where the whole bodystocking thing came from for belly dance - whether it was in fact a mid east import or is actually borrowed from modern dance in some way.
random tummy thoughts... keryx 2005
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Carla wear bodystocking and go boompa-boompa all day long.
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I pop on a lace bodystocking from a Soho sex shop that has fleurs-de-lis on it and I think is really beautiful.
Evening Standard - Home Millicent Binks 2011
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If in the past you've worn a cloak made out of Kermit the Frog heads and a blood-spattered, white lace bodystocking, just how do you top it?
Japundit - Published news Punjapit 2010
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It could work, if I were magenta red-headed, wearing a low-cut, leopard-print bodystocking, with some 5-inch patent red heels, in Reno, working at the Bunny Ranch …
Purse Blog 2009
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