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gaiter
/ˈɡeɪ.təɹ/
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What does gaiter mean?
noun
- A covering of cloth or leather for the ankle and instep.
- A covering cloth or leather for the whole leg from the knee to the instep, fitting down upon the shoe.
- A neck gaiter.
More meanings (5)
noun
- A part of the ecclesiastical garb of a bishop.
- A protective flexible sleeve covering a moving part, intended to keep the part clean.
- (obsolete) The dogwood, or a similar shrub.
verb
- To dress with gaiters.
proper noun
- A surname.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈɡeɪ.təɹ/
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They crept and crept, the hem of her petticoat just touching his gaiter, and his elbow sometimes brushing hers.
Five decades hardly modified the cut of a gaiter, the embroidery of a smock-frock, by the breadth of a hair.
More book examples (3)
When Edna knocked at Mademoiselle Reisz’s front room door and entered, she discovered that person standing beside the window, engaged in mending or patching an old prunella gaiter.
Among those ancestral people there is a young man, dressed in the very fashion of to-day: he wears a dark frock-coat, almost destitute of skirts, gray pantaloons, gaiter boots of patent leather, and has a finely wrought gold chain across his breast, and a little silver-headed whalebone stick in his hand.
Trousers with gaiter fastenings below the knee are preferred by some women who put not their faith in straps alone, and knee-breeches are liked by some, but to wear knee breeches means to pay fifteen dollars for long riding-boots, instead of the modest seven or eight dollars which suffice to buy ordinary Balmoral boots.