jazz garter
jazz garter noun: a decorative garter worn by women during the Jazz Age.
Noun
jazz garter (plural jazz garters)
- A decorative garter worn by women during the Jazz Age.
- Occasionally at a bush dance, when the elderly folk were conspicuous by their absence, the M.C. would throw a jazz-garter on the floor, point at some lucky fellow, and shout, 'You have ten seconds to find its mate. A packet of cigarettes if you do'.
The girls would squeal and giggle and start...1965, R. H. Conquest, Horses in the Kitchen: True Tales of Outback Australia, page 37 - Arousal and orgasm are no longer thought necessary; they would be a symptom of frivolity merely, like jazz garters or beauty spots.2011, Elaine Craig, Troubling Sex: Towards a Legal Theory of Sexual Integrity, page 147
- Occasionally at a bush dance, when the elderly folk were conspicuous by their absence, the M.C. would throw a jazz-garter on the floor, point at some lucky fellow, and shout, 'You have ten seconds to find its mate. A packet of cigarettes if you do'.
Forms of jazz garter
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Questions about jazz garter
- What does jazz garter mean?
- Jazz garter means a decorative garter worn by women during the Jazz Age.
- What part of speech is jazz garter?
- Jazz garter is a noun.
- What is the plural of jazz garter?
- The plural of jazz garter is jazz garters.
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