Definition of "cross-gartered" [cross-gartered]

• Wearing garters crossed upon the leg.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Marcus Powell's ludicrously cross-gartered Malvolio seems not only to have abandoned his senses, but taken up golf."
• "The bower is floored in lords and ladies, ground ivy and mosses, and its eight trunks cross-gartered with wild hops, our English vines."
• "Remember who commended thy yellow stockings, and wished to see thee ever cross-gartered: I say, remember."