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  • adjective wearing a garter
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of garter.

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Examples

  • I imagined the paleness of a gartered thigh against velvet upholstery, a breast exposed over by the wooden bar, an arm seductively draped over the back of a leather recliner.

    Miracles, Inc. T.J. Forrester 2011

  • I imagined the paleness of a gartered thigh against velvet upholstery, a breast exposed over by the wooden bar, an arm seductively draped over the back of a leather recliner.

    Miracles, Inc. T.J. Forrester 2011

  • Marcus Powell's ludicrously cross-gartered Malvolio seems not only to have abandoned his senses, but taken up golf.

    Twelfth Night Alfred Hickling 2010

  • 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.

    The Boy from Thuringia David Booth 2010

  • 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.

    A Brief History of the Shoe « Colleen Anderson 2009

  • A highlight will be British Pop artist Allen Jones's "Soft Tread" (1966-1967), a colorful painting giving a profile view of a woman's feet, legs and bottom erotically gartered with laced hosiery and impossibly-high stilettos.

    Selling Sex at Auction Margaret Studer 2010

  • He is shirtless, in shorts with suspenders, gartered black socks and is drooped over his porch railing, listlessly watering his wilted blue hydrangeas.

    Kate Clinton: Dahlin' 2010

  • A highlight will be British Pop artist Allen Jones's "Soft Tread" (1966-1967), a colorful painting giving a profile view of a woman's feet, legs and bottom erotically gartered with laced hosiery and impossibly-high stilettos.

    Selling Sex at Auction Margaret Studer 2010

  • A highlight will be British Pop artist Allen Jones's "Soft Tread" (1966-1967), a colorful painting giving a profile view of a woman's feet, legs and bottom erotically gartered with laced hosiery and impossibly-high stilettos.

    Selling Sex at Auction Margaret Studer 2010

  • A highlight will be British Pop artist Allen Jones's "Soft Tread" (1966-1967), a colorful painting giving a profile view of a woman's feet, legs and bottom erotically gartered with laced hosiery and impossibly-high stilettos.

    Selling Sex at Auction Margaret Studer 2010

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