fishnetty

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1. Made of fishnet.

   Stemming the culottes, sand-colored fishnetty tights by Hudson Hosiery.

   1967 March, “Khaki & What Wows It”, in Betsy Talbot Blackwell, editor, Mademoiselle, New York, N.Y.: The Condé Nast Publications Inc., →ISSN, page 136

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   Fishnetty fabrics are being hauled in by the yard by out-for-a-catch designers.

   1964 October 16, Anne Batt Calling, “All Strung Up”, in Liverpool Echo and Evening Express, number 26,391, Liverpool, Merseyside, page 18

   Used to be a bore to buy stockings. Now it’s fun! […] Choose shimmers. Flat mattes. Filmy sheers. Knee-high. Thigh-high. Tights. Opaques. Laces. Fishnetty ones.

   1967 October 10, Nan Duskin, “close-up: legs”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, volume 277, number 102, Philadelphia, Pa.: Triangle Publications, Inc., →ISSN, page 7

   “I come for the music and the exercise,” said one woman who was wearing high boots and a terrific fishnetty kind of top.

   1994 January 2, James Quig, “Boys’ night out”, in The Gazette, Montreal, Que., page F 2, column 2

   While everyone else is sartorially correct in leotards and leggings, she is busting out of something fishnetty that looks as if it came from the Pleasure Chest.

   1995 January 3, Liz Brody, “Sweaty Encounters of an Aerobic Kind”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: The Times Mirror Company, →ISSN, page E3, column 4

   At this showing of the cult film at midnight tonight, Indecent Exposure, the “official” live touring company, will appear simultaneously on stage, with props, in full-blown, tacky, fishnetty costume and make-up to enhance the cult experience.

   1991 August 16, “Events”, in The Press Democrat, 134th year, number 299, Santa Rosa, Calif., →ISSN, page D8, column 4

2. Resembling or characteristic of fishnet.

   Her pale blue-blues glare out from a fishnetty pattern of eyeshadow that raccoons up her face.

   2016, Robert J[ason] Peterson, “Booker, Glenn”, in Omegaball, Los Angeles, Calif.: A California Coldblood Book, Rare Bird Books, →ISBN, page 30

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   […] Mrs. Vreeland was wearing […] a cool black sheath of some cobwebby kind of material, sleeveless, and skimming over her body like a second skin. And the black of her hair was pulled into a black snood, fishnetty and smart as could be.

   1985, Gloria Vanderbilt, “Mrs. Vreeland and Camels and Rubies”, in Once Upon a Time: A True Story, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, pages 244–245

   This week in far-flung Northern Hemispheric ports the state of some gels’ sartorial gorgeousness is being measured by the exotic nature (or not) of their lacy, meshy, sort of fishnetty tights.

   1995 December 6, Janice Breen Burns, “Babble On”, in The Age, 142nd year, number 43,843, Melbourne, Vic., →ISSN, page 16, column 4