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  • adjective Wearing gaiters.

Etymologies

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gaiter +‎ -ed

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Examples

  • More than one gold-rusher, shooting keen glances at her ankles and gray-gaitered calves, affirmed Del

    CHAPTER I 2010

  • He liked her neat-shod feet and the gray-gaitered calves, -- alas, now hidden in long-skirted Dawson.

    CHAPTER 8 2010

  • Some gaitered old countryman with little grey whiskers, neat, weathered and firm-featured; or one of those short-necked John Bulls, still extant, square and weighty, with a flat top to his head, and a flat white topper on it!

    The Silver Spoon 2004

  • Mr Chadwick handed him a letter; which he read, stroking the tight-gaitered calf of his right leg as he did so.

    The Warden 2004

  • She never let them in, he cried again through his laughter as he stamped on gaitered feet over the gravel of the path.

    Ulysses 2003

  • The slender youth, groom or poacher — he might answer for either — with his short coat and gaitered legs, was sitting on a low horizontal bough, with his shoulder against the trunk.

    Uncle Silas 2003

  • (He distinctly saw an old French officer who, with gaitered legs and turned-out toes, climbed the hill with difficulty.)

    War and Peace 2003

  • “Yes,” said the Rector, quietly; and he crossed one gaitered leg over the other, and, with fingers interlaced, twiddled his thumbs, as he eyed the monstrous sectary under his orthodox old brows with a stern inquisitiveness.

    Uncle Silas 2003

  • Immediately the gaitered legs of a footman showed themselves on the staircase above; whereupon I was seized with such a fit of nervousness that I hastily bid the lacquey say nothing about my presence to the

    Youth 2003

  • They were sorted in teams and Mr Deasy came away stepping over wisps of grass with gaitered feet.

    Ulysses 2003

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