gartered, ppl. a.
(ˈgɑːtəd)
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
1. Tied with a garter.
| 1745 White Cockade in Jacobite Songs (1871) 60 O leeze me on the philabeg, The hairy hough, and gartened leg. |
2. Wearing the Garter, as a knight of that Order.
| 1718 Pope in Lady M. W. Montagu's Lett. (1887) I. 317 In this hall, in former days, have dined gartered knights and courtly dames. 1823 Byron Juan xiii. lxviii, Steel barons, molten the next generation To silken rows of gay and garter'd earls. 1838 Macaulay Ess., Temple (1887) 484 When he [Swift] stood in the Court of Requests, with a circle of gartered peers round him. |
3. Her. Surrounded by a garter (cf. the n. 3 b).
| 1823 Rutter Fonthill 34 Seventy-two gartered shields contribute to give richness. 1864 Boutell Her. Hist. & Pop. xxiii. 394 Several slabs..show traces of having once been enriched with gartered shields. |