English

Adjective

ungartered ‎(not comparable)

1. 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.