stocking
STOCKING
s. We may say tibiale (the sing. occurs Paullus Dig. 49 16 14; the plur. Suet. Oct. 82). To wear stockings tibialibus munire. ☞ The ancient tibialia were in fact bandages fasciae or fasciolae which were worn usually by none but the infirm and sometimes in winter by other persons fasciis vincire pedes or vestire crura.
s. We may say tibiale (the sing. occurs Paullus Dig. 49 16 14; the plur. Suet. Oct. 82). To wear stockings tibialibus munire. ☞ The ancient tibialia were in fact bandages fasciae or fasciolae which were worn usually by none but the infirm and sometimes in winter by other persons fasciis vincire pedes or vestire crura.
stocking: tībiāle, is, n. (a kind of warm covering for the calf of the leg): to wear s.s (or leggings) in winter, hieme tibialibus muniri, Suet. Aug. 82.
Stocking
See fasciae.