garteredadj.
/ˈɡɑːtəd/ 1. Tied with a garter.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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