Garters made of worsted or yarn.
“Ha! ha! look, he wears cruel garters.”
Shakespeare: King Lear, ii. 4.
“Wearing of silk, why art thou so cruel?”
Woman’s a Weathercock (1612).
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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