Definition of "gartered" [gartered]

• Wearing a garter (adjective)
• Simple past tense and past participle of garter. (verb)

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• "In his ruffled shirt and waistcoat — with his stockings pulled up over his breeches and gartered just below his knees — he was dressed like a miniature adult."
• "Marcus Powell's ludicrously cross-gartered Malvolio seems not only to have abandoned his senses, but taken up golf."
• "The pointy toed shoe of the 14th century reached such extremes of pointyness (up to two feet) that the point had to be gartered to the calf."