ungartered
English
Etymology
un- + gartered
Adjective
ungartered (not comparable)
- Not gartered.
- 1891, Various, Character Writings of the 17th Century:
- He is untrussed, unbuttoned, and ungartered, not out of carelessness, but care; his farthest end being but going to bed.
- 1899, Henry Theophilus Finck, Primitive Love and Love-Stories:
- Then your hose should be ungartered, your bonnet unbanded, your sleeve unbuttoned, your shoe untied, and everything about you demonstrating a careless desolation."
- 1904, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Church-Yard:
- Happily 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.
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