concertinawise

Updated: July 26, 2025

Jo had a pair of roomy ski boots into which she had fitted two pairs of stockings; one had been knitted for her by a Serbian girl, and they were so thick and hard that no suspender would hold them up, so they stood, concertinawise, over the boots.

Cora Gordon - The Luck of Thirteen: Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia