单词 | order of the garter |
释义 | > as lemmasOrder of the Garter a. the Garter, the badge of the highest order of English knighthood. Hence, membership of this order; (also) Order of the Garter.The institution of the order is commonly (on the authority of Froissart) attributed to Edward III about the year 1344. By the time of Selden (1614) it was traditionally asserted that the garter was that of the Countess of Salisbury, which fell off while she danced with the King, who picked it up and tied it on his own leg, saying to those present Honi soit qui mal y pense. The Garter as the badge of the Order is a ribbon of dark-blue velvet, edged and buckled with gold, and bearing the above words embroidered in gold, and is worn below the left knee; garters also form part of the ornament of the collar worn by the Knights. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > symbol of rank > [noun] > insignia of order > specific insignia of knightly order the Garterc1350 collar1488 star1602 blue ribbon1607 yellow ribbon1651 red ribbon1652 string1660 green ribbon1672 crossa1684 glory1693 cordon1727 O.M.1903 M.B.E.1917 OBE1917 society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > knight > [noun] > order > knighthood > Order of the Garter the Garterc1350 c1350 Wynnere & Wastoure 63 And iche a gartare of golde gerede full riche Then were th[e]re wordes in þe webbe..payntted of plunket..‘hethyng haue the hathell þat any harme thynkes’. 1388 in Higden (Rolls) IX. 155 A cause qil fuist chevalier del gartour.] 14.. T. Hoccleve Min. Poems (1892) 41 To yow, lordes of the garter ‘flour Of Chiualrie’ as men yow clepe and calle. 1480 Cronicles Eng. (Caxton) ccxlix. sig. xj This yere the duke of Bourgoyne began his ordre..and made statutes and ordinaunces moche accordyng vn to the ordre of the Garter. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. cviijv Sir Jhon Fastolffe, the same yere for his valiauntnes elected into the ordre of the Garter. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 230 The king of Jngland with his Gartan..maid him illustre. 1598 Floure & Leafe in T. Speght Wks. G. Chaucer f. 368v/1 Eke there be knights old of the Garter That in her time did right worthily. 1633 P. Heylyn Hist. St. George (ed. 2) iii. iii. 339 Master Henry Saint George, one of the Heraulds, sent to invest the said King with the Order of the Garter, was created Knight. 1685 J. Dryden Albion & Albanius iii. 30 Record the Garters glory: A Badge for Hero's, and for Kings to bear. 1714 A. Pope Rape of Lock (new ed.) i. 6 Peers and Dukes, and all their sweeping Train, And Garters, Stars, and Coronets appear. 1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto IV cx. 126 Blue as the garters which serenely lie Round the Patrician left-legs. 1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xxx. 296 You might as well ask the prime minister for the next vacant garter. 1886 Illustr. Naval & Mil. Mag. 1 Apr. 265/2 The order of the Garter was reconstituted, Jan. 17, 1805, and made to consist of the Sovereign and twenty five knights-companions. < as lemmas |
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