jazz garter
English
Noun
jazz garter (plural jazz garters)
- (chiefly in the plural) A decorative garter worn by women during the Jazz Age.
- 1965, R. H. Conquest, Horses in the Kitchen: True Tales of Outback Australia (page 37)
- 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 running; […]
- 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'.
- 2011, Elaine Craig, Troubling Sex: Towards a Legal Theory of Sexual Integrity (page 147)
- Arousal and orgasm are no longer thought necessary; they would be a symptom of frivolity merely, like jazz garters or beauty spots.
- 1965, R. H. Conquest, Horses in the Kitchen: True Tales of Outback Australia (page 37)
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