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
The snow had got into his shoes, and through the rents in his cross-gartered stockings.
From The Eternal City by Caine, Hall, Sir
I will be strange, stout, in yellow stockings, and cross-gartered, even with the swiftness of putting on.
From Twelfth Night by Shakespeare, William
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