jazz garter

plural jazz garters

1. in pluralA decorative garter worn by women during the Jazz Age.

   Arousal and orgasm are no longer thought necessary; they would be a symptom of frivolity merely, like jazz garters or beauty spots.

   2011, Elaine Craig, Troubling Sex: Towards a Legal Theory of Sexual Integrity, page 147

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   Occasionally at a bush dance, when the elderly folk were conspicuous by their absence, the M.C. would throw a jazz-garter on the floor, point at some lucky fellow, and shout, 'You have ten seconds to find its mate. A packet of cigarettes if you do'. The girls would squeal and giggle and start running; […]

   1965, R. H. Conquest, Horses in the Kitchen: True Tales of Outback Australia, page 37