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
Remember who commended thy yellow stockings, and wished to see thee ever cross-gartered.
From Twelfth Night by Shakespeare, William
His doublet was of scarlet, while his long hose of white were cross-gartered with scarlet from his tiny sandals to his knees.
From The Outlaw of Torn by Burroughs, Edgar Rice
Their shirts were of faded red cotton; their full trousers, of blue-and-red-striped home-made linen, were confined by a strip of coarse crash swathed around the feet and legs to the knee, and cross-gartered with ropes.
From Russian Rambles by Hapgood, Isabel Florence
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