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Garter definition

gärtər
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An elasticized band worn around the leg to hold up a stocking or sock.
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A suspender strap with a fastener attached to a girdle or belt to hold up a stocking or sock.
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An elasticized band worn around the arm to keep the sleeve pushed up.
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The badge of the Order of the Garter.
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The order itself.
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Membership in the order.
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To fasten and hold with a garter.
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To put a garter on.
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An elastic band, or a fastener suspended from a band, girdle, etc., for holding a stocking or sock in position.
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An elastic band formerly worn to keep a shirt sleeve pushed up.
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The badge of the Order of the Garter.
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The order itself.
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Membership in it.
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To bind, support, or fasten with or as with a garter.
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A band worn around the leg to hold up a sock or stocking.
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(heraldry) A bendlet.
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To fasten with a garter.
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Noun

Singular:
garter
Plural:
garters

Origin of garter

  • Middle English band to support socks from Old North French gartier from garet bend of the knee probably of Celtic origin

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Old French gartier, jartier, from garet, jaret. Cognate with French jarretière.

    From Wiktionary

Garter Sentence Examples

  • He was appointed the same year lord-lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and in 1677 received the Garter.

  • In 1553 he had the office of lord admiral of England, and in the next year the Garter.

  • Treat?ng this as a vote of want of confidence Aberdeen at once res'gned office, and the queen bestowed upon him the order of the Garter.

  • Abd-ul-Aziz had visited the Paris Exhibition of 1867 and had paid his respects to Queen Victoria, who conferred on him the order of the Garter.

  • By the heiress of the Tonis he left at his death in 1315 a son Earl Thomas, who distinguished himself at Crecy and Poitiers, was marshal of the English host, and, with his brother John, one of the founders of the order of the Garter.

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