The question was asked with a final, emphatic stomp, an up-throw of the disheveled head, a spreading outward of both gartered arms.
Under the smock-frock were leggings laced at the sides, and gartered above the knees.
Stockings of scarlet cloth, cross-gartered with golden braid, and short brown leather boots, the heels armed with the golden spurs of knighthood, completed his apparel.
It was a vast assembly, chiefly of men, in their homespun and sheepskins and woollen stockings, cross-gartered with hemp from ankle to knee.
A footman in red and buff, powdered, starched, gartered and dainty, opened the door.
The costume of a yeoman of the period consisted of a narrow-brimmed hat with flat crown, a doublet with large wings and short skirts, a girdle about his waist, trunk breeches, with hose drawn up to the thigh and garteredbelow the knees.
His stockings are cross-gartered and ornamented at the knees and in the lozenges formed by the gartering.
Their hose were blue, cross-gartered from ankle to knee with strips of leather, and their shoes had an opening down the instep tied close with thongs.
He wore a tattered jerkin, and his legs, in default of stockings, were swathed in soiled bandages and cross-gartered from ankle to knee.
Her glance travelled back over her shoulder to the tall, limber fellow in leather jerkin and with cross-gartered legs who lounged a dozen steps behind them.
The tight knickerbockers are of serviceable texture, gartered at the knee, each showing four silver or gilt buttons in a row up the outside of the leg.
His legs were swathed in fine cloth and cross-gartered below the bare knees, and his feet were encased in brogues with silver clasps.
There were silver buckles on his tanned shoes, and below his bare knees his legs were swathed in fine lawn, cross-gartered with red silk bands.
His long botas were of soft yellow leather stamped with designs in silver and gartered with blue ribbon.
He was very shabbily dressed in a black gown, a little black cap, both much the worse for wear, and dark grey trousers gartered at the ankle.
His little round cap was set jauntily on his head, his black gown was girt about his loins, and his trousers, as a rule gartered at the ankle, were turned up to the knees.
Illustration: {Three men of the time of William and Mary}] Stockings were pulled over the knee, and were gartered below and rolled above it.
They were gartered about the knee, and pulled up over the breeches; but the man most proud of his leg wore no garters, but depended on the shape of his leg and the fit of his stocking to keep the position.
To protect their legs from thorns the men wore bandages of twisted straw wrapped round their trousers, or leather thongs cross-gartered to the knee.
I may add that the hose were gartered below the knee to hold them taut with rich garters, but if a man were a Garter Knight he wore but the garter of his Order.
His doublet was of scarlet, while his long hose of white were cross-gartered with scarlet from his tiny sandals to his knees.
His long hose, fitting his shapely legs as closely as another layer of skin, were of the same red wool as his tunic, while his strong leather sandals were cross-gartered halfway to his knees with narrow bands of leather.
He is in a brown tunic, cross-gartered hose, a blue mantle, and a broad hat; he has no weapon but a small axe.
They all go cross-gartered like Malvolio;--cross-gartered in their looks and words and doings.
Not all the mailed knights and barons of olden times, nor gartered Dukes nor belted Earls, would have defended the dignity of the crown with so much zeal and devotion as the Commons have done for many years past.
The legs are in hose like a Highlander's or in long breeches bandaged or cross-gartered below the knee.
The Spaniard may no longer walk with his long sword, his ruff and gartered hose, but he keeps his fancy for sombre blacks, and so do the citizens of those Netherlands which he once ruled.
Stockings, until the middle of the century, were commonly drawn over the ends of the breeches andgartered below the knee.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gartered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
