Read full poem →Before you pass the imaginary sights
Of lords, and earls, and dukes, and garter'd knights,
While the spread fan o'ershades your closing eyes;
Dictionary Entry
A band worn around the leg to hold up a sock or stocking.
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Common Phrases
. gartersnake gartersnakes garterbelt garterking garterbelts gartergarter commongarter red
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Poetry examples for “garter”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →See first the merry P----[84] comes
In haste without his garter.
Read full poem →married the Earl of Bath's sister. Sent to
Saxony with the Garter.
Read full poem →of Kendall ; Lord Fitz-Hu^h^ Marmyony and Saint Quintin; Knight of
the Most Noble Order of the Garter; and one of his Majesty's most Ho'
nourable Privy-Council: and our singular good Lord.
Read full poem →Then Lilly Fischman stood up. She pulled her skirt up and yanked at
one of her silk stockings. She adjusted the garter, we saw white flesh. Then
she pulled at and adjusted the other stocking. Such a sight we had never
Read full poem →you, land of the Cluett
Shirt Boston Garter and Spearmint
Girl With The Wrigley Eyes(of you
Read full poem →Cockalorum_,
Or _Fly-the-garter_, and _Leap-frog_. At the sound
Of footsteps he began to straighten himself;
Read full poem →67. _To the Kings most noble Grace, and to the Lords and Knights of the
Garter_; pr. as above, p. 424; eight 8-line stanzas. In MS. Phillipps 8151,
and written by Hoccleve; it much resembles his poem printed in _Anglia_, v.
Read full poem →To fill in future times his father's place,
And wear the garter of his mother's race.
Read full poem →poetical personages and true knights, "sans peur," though not "sans
reproche." If the story of the institution of the "Garter" be not a
fable, the knights of that order have for several centuries borne the