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ungartered

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English

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ gartered.

Adjective

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ungartered (not comparable)

  1. Not gartered.
    • 1891, Various, Character Writings of the 17th Century[1]:
      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[2]:
      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[3]:
      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.

Verb

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ungartered

  1. simple past and past participle of ungarter