fishnetty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fishnetty
form: most fishnetty
Etymology: From fishnet + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Fishnetty fabrics are being hauled in by the yard by out-for-a-catch designers.
ref: 1964 October 16, Anne Batt Calling, “All Strung Up”, in Liverpool Echo and Evening Express, number 26,391, Liverpool, Merseyside, page 18:
text: Stemming the culottes, sand-colored fishnetty tights by Hudson Hosiery.
ref: 1967 March, “Khaki & What Wows It”, in Betsy Talbot Blackwell, editor, Mademoiselle, New York, N.Y.: The Condé Nast Publications Inc., →ISSN, page 136:
text: 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.
ref: 1967 October 10, Nan Duskin, “close-up: legs”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, volume 277, number 102, Philadelphia, Pa.: Triangle Publications, Inc., →ISSN, page 7:
text: “I come for the music and the exercise,” said one woman who was wearing high boots and a terrific fishnetty kind of top.
ref: 1994 January 2, James Quig, “Boys’ night out”, in The Gazette, Montreal, Que., page F 2, column 2:
text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: 1991 August 16, “Events”, in The Press Democrat, 134th year, number 299, Santa Rosa, Calif., →ISSN, page D8, column 4:
text: He also appears on the cover of Manchester Slingback. Twice. In leather queen gear on the front and rampant, fishnetty drag on the back.
ref: 1999 August 14, Stephanie Bunbury, “A watcher in the shadows”, in The Age, Melbourne, Vic., →ISSN, Saturday Extra section, page 5, column 2:
text: I thought Frizz would be too shy, but she immediately pulled off the jeans and put on the suspender belt, and a pair of stockings that went with it – black and fishnetty.
ref: 2002, Jean Ure, chapter 3, in Girls Are Groovy! (Girlfriends; 3), London: Orchard Books, Hachette Children’s Books, published 2008, →ISBN, page 53:
text: Today, when I’m sure it hit mid-80s in the city, Margot is wearing a knee-length black dress, fishnetty tights, and clunky shoes.
ref: 2011, Kilian Betlach, “Fourth First Day”, in We Are Almost Always on the Verge, San Francisco, Calif.: Mutiny Pressings, →ISBN, page 120:
text: Yesterday she had on a black bra under a pink fishnetty thing.
ref: 2016, Heather Tucker, chapter 30, in The Clay Girl: A Novel, Toronto, Ont.: ECW Press, a misFit book, →ISBN, page 132:
glosses: Made of fishnet.
examples: text: […] 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.
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: 1995 December 6, Janice Breen Burns, “Babble On”, in The Age, 142nd year, number 43,843, Melbourne, Vic., →ISSN, page 16, column 4:
text: Her pale blue-blues glare out from a fishnetty pattern of eyeshadow that raccoons up her face.
ref: 2016, Robert J[ason] Peterson, “Booker, Glenn”, in Omegaball, Los Angeles, Calif.: A California Coldblood Book, Rare Bird Books, →ISBN, page 30:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of fishnet.