Definitions
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- adjective archaic Wearing
garters .
Etymologies
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be- + gartered
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Examples
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But, some silken-clad smoothers, some purple parasites, some fawners in frippery, some greedy and begartered ones in gorgeous garments, he does impeach — ay, and wrathfully!
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There stood eight stalwart porters, divided into two parties of four each, and on their shoulders they bore erect, supported on painted frames, an enormous pair of gilded, embroidered, brocaded, begartered wooden stockings.
The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson By One of the Firm Anthony Trollope 1848
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