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🧦 Wearing garters 🏅 Order of the Garter
gartered

gartered

9.9
Being a member of the Order of the Garter and wearing its badge
  • adjective
  • UK
translation icon : miembro de la Orden de la Jarretera
  • The gartered knight proudly displayed his badge at the royal banquet.

Examples

  • He was honored as a gartered member of the prestigious order.

  • Only a gartered noble was permitted to enter the exclusive ceremony.

  • The gartered knight stood proudly at the ceremony.

  • He was honored to be a gartered member of the order.

  • The gartered knight proudly displayed his badge at the royal banquet.

  • Only a gartered noble was permitted to enter the exclusive ceremony.

  • He was honored as a gartered member of the prestigious order.

Surface Forms

gartered positive

Morphology

gartered = garter (opaque) = garter + ed

Although formally garter + -ed, the sense 'member/wearing the insignia of the Order of the Garter' is specialized and not predictable from the everyday sense 'garter'.

Etymology

Gartered can also mean belonging to the Order of the Garter, which takes its name from the 'garter' band used as the group's symbol and badge. So a 'gartered' knight is one who wears that symbol and is a member of the order.