stockings

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He listed the goodies money could buy: sausages, ham, coffee, bacon, soap, ladies’ stockings.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

The other DHS clip is a montage of Yuletide cheer — Santa, elves, stockings, dancing — over a sped-up electro-trash remake of Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas is You.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025

Meanwhile, investors may be hoping for some gold and silver in their Christmas stockings.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025

"I insist the children have coal in their Christmas stockings, which is a luxury item in Wales," he joked.

From BBC • Nov. 19, 2025

We boys and common men abandoned our shoes, stockings, doublets and slops weeks ago.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone