body stocking

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   a one-piece tight-fitting undergarment for women that covers the torso (and may have sleeves and legs)

   Broaderundergarment

Questions about body stocking

What does body stocking mean?

body stocking means "a one-piece tight-fitting undergarment for women that covers the torso (and may have sleeves and legs)".

Is body stocking a common word?

body stocking is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.