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garter
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Garters are articles of clothing : narrow bands of fabric fastened about the leg, used to keep up stockings , and sometimes socks . In the eighteenth to twentieth centuries, they were tied just below the knee, where the leg is most slender, to keep the ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., from Old North French gartier "band just above or below the knee" (Old French jartier , 14c., Modern French jarretière ), from garet "bend of the knee," perhaps from Gaulish (compare Welsh garr "leg"). Garter as the highest order of knighthood ...
Usage examples of garter.
Edward, Duke and Earl of Buckingham, Earl and Baron of Stafford, Prince of Brecknock, Count of Perche in Normandy, Knight of the Garter, hereditary Lord High Steward, and, in virtue of the blood of Bohun, Lord High Constable of England.
Behind the half-busy bar a man with high collar, string tie, and arm garters drew schooners of beer from a tap, and at tables of no significant location sat men and women Francis recognized: whores, bums, barflies.
At the end she tore it off and sang and danced in a red corselette with garters holding up dark stockings.
Grayson did her monologue in the first half of the show, coming on a bare stage in the tightly focused beam of a spotlight, wearing her black hat, a black corselette, showing the white skin of her upper thighs above dark stockings held up by red garters.
Chastity could see, Cyn purchased a nightgown, a lace-trimmed chemise, two pairs of cotton stockings, and garters threaded with pink ribbon.
It was going through his clothes, tossing aside cloaks, doublets, garters, and robes, apparently selecting a wardrobe.
Tony Wills was known as a careful conservative analyst, and one of the best Langley had ever turned out, despite the green eyeshade and the garters on the sleeves.
Her wellturned ankle displayed its perfect proportions beneath her skirt and just the proper amount and no more of her shapely limbs encased in finespun hose with highspliced heels and wide garter tops.
But being arrived in this lonely place, where it was very improbable he should meet with any interruption, he suddenly slipped his garter from his leg, and, laying violent hands on the poor woman, endeavoured to perpetrate that dreadful and detestable fact which we have before commemorated, and which the providential appearance of Jones did so fortunately prevent.
The act of settlement being passed, the earl of Macclesfield was sent to notify the transaction to the electress Sophia, who likewise received from his hands the order of the garter.
The salesgirl, very sexily dressed and made up, just smiled as Minni showed me crotchless panties, bras with holes for the nipples to show through, filmy nightgowns, garters, patterned nylons, very short tight skirts only about 10-inches from waist to hem, see-through blouses, and all sorts of other stuff.
Powerful legs were spread apart and thickly gartered with leather, his only covering besides the conical helmet with its long noseguard that concealed most of his face.
Pulling a small knife from his coat pocket, he cut away her corset and silky pantalets, leaving only her gartered stockings.
Still, she made no move to protest as he pushed the legs of her pantalets up her thighs, past the garters and rolled the stockings down each shapely leg and tossed them aside.
Upon his legs he wore red stockings rolled up over the joint of the knee, his breeches were of blue drab, with vellum button-holes, and garters of gold lace, his waistcoat of scarlet, his coat of rusty black cloth, his hair, twisted into a ramilie, hung down to his rump, of the colour of jet, and his hat was adorned with a white feather.