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Garter
Definitions
- 1 A band worn around the leg to hold up a sock or stocking.
- 2 a band (usually elastic) worn around the leg to hold up a stocking (or around the arm to hold up a sleeve) wordnet
- 3 A bendlet.
- 4 An elastic band encircling any article of clothing. Philippines
- 5 One of a set of tapes stretched out horizontally for acrobats and equestrians to leap over as part of a circus act or display of skill. obsolete
"GRAND TRAMPOLINE, by Mr KING, (from Astley's Amphitheatre, London) who will introduce a great variety of leaps. Somerset 1 - Somerset in the Air - while in that position lie will fire two pistols. Somerset 2 - Over garters 12 feet high."
- 1 to fasten with a garter transitive
- 2 fasten with or as if with a garter wordnet
- 3 To wear a garter intransitive
"Lady Hester loathed the coarse, deluded and lecherous Princess Caroline, who showed off to Smith by 'dancing about, exposing herself, like an opera girl', and even gartering below the knee:"
Etymology
From Middle English garter, from Old Northern French gartier, from Old French garet (compare Old French jartier, from jaret), from Gaulish *garrā, from Proto-Celtic *garros (“calf, shank”) (compare Cornish gar, Cornish gar,Middle Welsh garr, Old Irish gairr). Cognate with French jarretière.
From Middle English garter, from Old Northern French gartier, from Old French garet (compare Old French jartier, from jaret), from Gaulish *garrā, from Proto-Celtic *garros (“calf, shank”) (compare Cornish gar, Cornish gar,Middle Welsh garr, Old Irish gairr). Cognate with French jarretière.
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