garter

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English

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A bride putting on a garter.

Etymology

From Middle English garter, from Old Northern French gartier, from Old French garet (compare Old French jartier, from jaret), from Gaulish *garrā, from Proto-Celtic *garros (“calf, shank”) (compare Cornish gar, Cornish gar,Middle Welsh garr, Old Irish gairr). Cognate with French jarretière.

Pronunciation

Noun

garter (plural garters)

  1. A band worn around the leg to hold up a sock or stocking.
  2. (heraldry) A bendlet.
    Coordinate terms: bendlet, cost, riband

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

garter (third-person singular simple present garters, present participle gartering, simple past and past participle gartered)

  1. (transitive) to fasten with a garter
  2. (intransitive) To wear a garter
    • 2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 385:
      Lady Hester loathed the coarse, deluded and lecherous Princess Caroline, who showed off to Smith by 'dancing about, exposing herself, like an opera girl', and even gartering below the knee:

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Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French gartier.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡartər/, /ɡarˈteːr/

Noun

garter (plural garters)

  1. garter

Descendants

  • English: garter
  • Yola: ghurteare, gurteare

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