cross-gartered
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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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
She wore a moss-coloured 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
An oblong piece of leather forms the sole: holes are cut at the four corners, and through these holes leathern straps are passed, which are bound round the foot and cross-gartered up the calf.
From The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Butler, Samuel
Then he passed an old shepherd in a cloak of faded blue, with sheepskin legs cross-gartered to the knee, taking his lean, golden-brown flock up into the mountains.
From Beggars on Horseback by Jesse, F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson)
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