stocking feet

Wearing socks or stockings, but not shoes, as in I got locked out of the house in my stocking feet. [First half of 1800s]

Words nearby stocking feet

He came shuffling in in his stocking-feet, and when he saw me he gave a kind of groan.

Hildegarde's Holiday |Laura E. Richards
All were barefoot or in their stocking-feet except the Gruicowar, who occupied a bench, or platform, at one side.

Across India |Oliver Optic
Cheverel is a skin that will stretch so that after one wearing you may not tell the thumbs from stocking-feet.

The Fifth Queen |Ford Madox Ford
They did mischief very nicely, all quietly in their stocking-feet.

St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 8, May 1886, No. 7. |Various

In his stocking-feet he had no great difficulty walking up the first bulge of the walls.

The Rainbow Trail |Zane Grey