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
The shape of the legs, the 'yellow cross-gartered stockings' of poor Malvolio in Twelfth Night are here ridiculed.
From Shakspere and Montaigne by Feis, Jacob
"Because I don't go about with my stockings cross-gartered, and do that kind of business?"
From The Last Chronicle of Barset by Trollope, Anthony
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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