ungartered

English

Etymology

un- +‎ gartered

Adjective

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

ungartered

1. simple past and past participle of ungarter