Garters
[ɡɑ:təz]
Examples
- Miss Abbot, lend me your garters; she would break mine directly. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Now you have tightened your garters, the gypsy said approvingly. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Nine oils, Merrylegs, missing tips, garters, banners, and Ponging, eh! Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- The man has it in his suspenders and his pipe stem, the woman in her garters and dress shields, and the baby in its teething ring and rattle. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Offered at the Garters four times last night, and never done 'em once,' said Master Kidderminster. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Lords come up to my door with stars and garters, instead of poor artists with screws of tobacco in their pockets. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Typist: Rosanna