cross-gartered

Marcus Powell's ludicrously cross-gartered Malvolio seems not only to have abandoned his senses, but taken up golf.

Twelfth Night Alfred Hickling 2010

The bower is floored in lords and ladies, ground ivy and mosses, and its eight trunks cross-gartered with wild hops, our English vines.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

The bower is floored in lords and ladies, ground ivy and mosses, and its eight trunks cross-gartered with wild hops, our English vines.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

Remember who commended thy yellow stockings, and wished to see thee ever cross-gartered: I say, remember.

Twelfth Night; or, What You Will 2004

She did commend my yellow stockings of late, she did praise my leg being cross-gartered; and in this she manifests herself to my love, and with a kind of injunction drives me to these habits of her liking.

Twelfth Night; or, What You Will 2004

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

Twelfth Night; or, What You Will 2004

His green tunic was beautifully molded to his body and at mid-thigh length exposed smooth-fitting azure chausses, cross-gartered in the green of his tunic, that displayed his handsome legs to fine effect.

This Scepter'd Isle Lackey, Mercedes 2004

The shape of the legs, the 'yellow cross-gartered stockings' of poor Malvolio in _Twelfth Night_ are here ridiculed.

Shakspere and Montaigne Jacob Feis

_Euphues_ is a very Malvolio among books, cross-gartered and wreathed as to its countenance with set smiles.

The Bibliotaph and Other People Leon H. Vincent

_Malvolios_, "smiling" at one another, though not cross-gartered!

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 2, 1841 Various