A net with large, regular holes used to catch fish, or fabric woven with open mesh in a similar pattern.
Compound of 'fish' and 'net'; the fabric meaning emerged in the 20th century when designers created clothing using the open-mesh pattern of traditional fishing nets.
Fishnet stockings became a fashion revolution—they were originally practical fishing equipment, but when women adopted them in the 1920s, they signaled modernity and rebellion against Victorian propriety.
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