Gartering
noun, verb
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The material from which garters are made. countable, uncountable
"What Catholick has ever offered up more Extasies at the Shrine of his Tutelar Saint, than has been paid to the simple Brade of your Shoe, a discoloured Top-Knot, or perhaps two Spans of unravelled Gartering."
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of garter form-of, gerund, participle, present
Example
More examples"What Catholick has ever offered up more Extasies at the Shrine of his Tutelar Saint, than has been paid to the simple Brade of your Shoe, a discoloured Top-Knot, or perhaps two Spans of unravelled Gartering."
Etymology
From garter + -ing.
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