cross-gartered

[ kraws-gahr-terd, kros- ]

adjective

1. (in Elizabethan and other costumes) wearing garters crisscrossed on the leg.

Example Sentences

His embarrassingly cross-gartered yellow stockings, she wrote, were a reference to his own coat of arms.

From New York Times

At the outer reaches of the desk, various photographs: the cast of Twelfth Night on the college lawn, himself as Malvolio, cross-gartered.

From Literature

Remember who commended thy yellow stockings; and wished to see thee ever cross-gartered: I say, remember.

From Project Gutenberg

She did commend my yellow stockings of late, she did praise my leg being cross-gartered:—I thank my stars, I am happy.

From Project Gutenberg

His first independent experience was gained in 1839, when he went about for some months in Lincolnshire executing several commissions for portraits; but he soon began to attempt compositions, and in 1840 his first picture, “Malvolio, cross-gartered before the Countess Olivia,” appeared at the Royal Academy.

From Project Gutenberg