Silk-stocking

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.]