Meanings
- not comparableNot gartered.
He is untrussed, unbuttoned, and ungartered, not out of carelessness, but care; his farthest end being but going to bed.
1891, Various, Character Writings of the 17th Century2 more examples
Then your hose should be ungartered, your bonnet unbanded, your sleeve unbuttoned, your shoe untied, and everything about you demonstrating a careless desolation."
1899, Henry Theophilus Finck, Primitive Love and Love-StoriesHappily the table behind which he stood was one of those old-fashioned toilet affairs, with the back part, which was turned toward the door, sheeted over with wood, so that his ungartered stockings and rascally old slippers, were invisible.
1904, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Church-Yard
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of ungarter
Origin
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