单词 | gartered |
释义 | garteredadj. 1. Tied with a garter. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing stockings > gartered gartered1745 1745 White Cockade in Jacobite Songs (1871) 60 O leeze me on the philabeg, The hairy hough, and gartened leg. 2. Wearing the Garter, as a knight of that Order. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > symbol of rank > [adjective] > be decorated with starred1591 gartered1718 ordered1817 bestarred1860 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing stockings > gartered > types of cross-gartereda1616 gartered1718 1718 A. Pope Let. in Corresp. (1956) I. 506 In this Hall, in former days have dined Garterd knights & Courtly Dames. 1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XIII lxviii. 89 Steel Barons, molten the next generation To silken rows of gay and garter'd Earls. 1838 T. B. Macaulay Sir William Temple in Ess. (1887) 484 When he [Swift] stood in the Court of Requests, with a circle of gartered peers round him. 3. Heraldry. Surrounded by a garter (cf. the noun 3b). ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > representations of articles of clothing > [adjective] > gartered gartered1823 1823 J. Rutter Delineations of Fonthill 34 Seventy-two gartered shields contribute to give richness. 1863 C. Boutell Man. Heraldry xxiii. 314 Several slabs..show traces of having once been enriched with gartered shields. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < adj.1718 |
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