cross-gartered

She wore sandals like mine, cross-gartered to her knees.

On there legs they wore woolen leggings fastened with cross-gartered.

I will be strange, stout, in yellow stockings, and cross-gartered, even with the swiftness of putting on.

The hem of his robe was pulled back, revealing cross-gartered sandals of sturdy construction.

"Cross-gartered," in which garters are crossed at the knees, is not relevant in days of casual styling.

Some had cross-gartered sandals.

The old man was tattered and grubby, wearing a soiled tunic and cross-gartered hose.

And the man, who was Norman Mushari, came down the stairs uninvited, lugging a fat, cross-gartered, slack-jawed briefcase.

Thongs bound the windings like cross-gartered hose, reminding Martine of an impoverished courtier she'd once met in Selgaunt.

Ted Rooney's Malvolio cuts an amusingly ridiculous figure, limping along cross-gartered in his yellow stockings, and gets the most from the letter-reading scene.

Mara showed none of her revulsion, but untied the cross-gartered sandals, which were as crusted with filth as the broad feet they protected. '

It asks Malvolio to wear yellow stockings cross-gartered, to be rude to the rest of the servants, and to smile constantly in the presence of Olivia.

His doublet was of scarlet, while his long hose of white were cross-gartered with scarlet from his tiny sandals to his knees.

Of something called wool, there were baggy trews that reached to ankles; gaiters cross-gartered with leather thongs stretching from knee to ankle; a long-sleeved undertunic.

For a moment Jack imagined himself trying to pass unnoticed in a world where people said 'Prithee' and 'Dost thou go cross-gartered, yonder varlet?'

The point is that we do not require a univocal idealization of our country or a roseate view of English history as some kind of cross-gartered rural idyll.

MALVOLIO 'And wished to see thee cross-gartered.'

SIR TOBY BELCH And cross-gartered?

But the great comic set-pieces – the gulling of Malvolio (Simon Paisley Day) and his display of the yellow cross-gartered stockings – fall curiously flat.

From Shakespeare’s cross-gartered Malvolio to Sacha Baron-Cohen’s mustachioed Borat, writers have gulled the vain, the deluded and the merely daft.

Heavy cloak, free of all adornment, save for the moonwashed silver of fur gaiters cross-gartered around her shins, and brown leather bracers warding most of her forearms.

In the production, Malvolio's discovery of the bogus letter - a scene of almost certain hilarity - draws no laughter, and neither does the scene in which he emerges boldly cross-gartered.

From Malvolio mincing cross-gartered to Del-Boy Trotter dreaming of a big score, we recognise ourselves in the snobs brought low and the wide-boys thwarted of class-based comedy.

Confronted with the cross-gartered sight of her steward in the process of being publicly laid low, Olivia for the first time in my experience lets out the single exclamation, “Malvoli – oh!”

Jack gaped at him, half in a panic, realizing that the man was not speaking English - never mind 'prithee' or 'Dost thou go cross-gartered, varlet,' it wasn't English at all.