cross-gartered

American  

[kraws-gahr-terd, kros-] / ˈkrɔsˈgɑr tərd, ˈkrɒs- /

adjective

1. (in Elizabethan and other costumes) wearing garters crisscrossed on the leg.

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Example Sentences

His embarrassingly cross-gartered yellow stockings, she wrote, were a reference to his own coat of arms.

From New York Times • Nov. 4, 2022

At the outer reaches of the desk, various photographs: the cast of Twelfth Night on the college lawn, himself as Malvolio, cross-gartered.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

I knelt to my lord, as he sat in his rich-broidered cloak, with his plump legs cross-gartered, as befits great nobles, and, kissing his hand, begged that I might speak on.

From The Fall of the Grand Sarrasin Being a Chronicle of Sir Nigel de Bessin, Knight, of Things that Happed in Guernsey Island, in the Norman Seas, in and about the Year One Thousand and Fifty-Seven by Ferrar, William J.

To protect their legs from thorns the men wore bandages of twisted straw wrapped round their trousers, or leather thongs cross-gartered to the knee.

From English Costume by Calthrop, Dion Clayton

She wore a moss-colored velvet jerkin with cinnamon sleeves, slim brown cross-gartered hose, a dainty little green cap with a hawk's feather caught in a jewel, and a hooded cloak lined with dull red.

From The Picture of Dorian Gray by Wilde, Oscar