garter
English
editEtymology
editFrom 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
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɡɑːtə/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɡɑːɹtɚ/
- Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)
Noun
editgarter (plural garters)
Derived terms
editTranslations
editband around leg
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(heraldry) a bendlet
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Verb
editgarter (third-person singular simple present garters, present participle gartering, simple past and past participle gartered)
- (transitive) to fasten with a garter
- (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:
Anagrams
editMiddle English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Old French gartier.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editgarter (plural garters)
Descendants
editReferences
edit- “garter, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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