ungarterとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

ungarter (三人称単数 現在形 ungarters, 現在分詞 ungartering, 過去形および過去分詞形 ungartered)

1. To remove the garter or garters from.
   • 1952, Gerald Warner Brace, The Spire, page 355:

     Unbend, my dear dean, mon cher doyen — unlace, ungarter yourself!

   • 1995, Paddy Chayefsky, The Collected Works of Paddy Chayefsky, page 159:

     She looks down at her other stocking and starts to ungarter that.

   • 1995, Gilbert Sorrentino, Red the Fiend, page 53:

     He pulls off his tie, and puts it, knotted, into his jacket pocket, ungarters his stockings and rolls them to just above his ankles, and pulls off and puts on his knitted nooby five or six times, until the brittle surface of his hair is somewhat softer.

   • 2015, Anonymous, Miss Cootes' Confession: The Voluptuous Experiences of an Old Maid:

     Presently up she whips her coats and ungarters her stockings, contemplates her legs, turns them this way, and that way, and in short practised a thousand manoeuvers, which I have not at present leisure to expatiate upon; suffice it to say not a single movement was lost upon me, and from that hour to the present moment, I never see a pretty leg but I feel certain unutterable emotions within me, which seem to realize the observations of the poet: