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Knee-high   /ni-haɪ/   Listen
Knee-high

noun
1.
A sock or stocking that reaches up to just below the knees.  Synonym: knee-hi.






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"Knee-high" Quotes from Famous Books



... sense to put on her knee-high boots and knee-length skirt, a low collared shirt waist and sports coat, also a topee; but, wishing to leave no clue as to her future movements at the hotel, she had slung everything else pell-mell into her trunks, locked and left them ...
— Leonie of the Jungle • Joan Conquest

... the fifteenth of June, and the sun glazed down upon the dry cornfield as if it had a spite against Lincoln Stewart, who was riding a gayly painted new sulky corn-plow, guiding the shovels with his feet. The corn was about knee-high and rustled softly, almost as if whispering, not yet ...
— Short Stories of Various Types • Various

... attempt! She had understood! And they walked on among the bracken, knee-high already, between the rabbit-holes and the oak-trees, talking of Jolly. He left her two hours later at the Richmond Hill Gate, and ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy



Words linked to "Knee-high" :   knee-deep, knee-hi, sock, stocking



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