A garter is an article of clothing comprising a narrow band of fabric fastened about the leg to keep up stockings. In the eighteenth to twentieth centuries...
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The Most Noble Order of the Garter is an order of chivalry founded by Edward III of England in 1348. The most senior order of knighthood in the British...
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Garter snake is the common name for small to medium-sized snakes belonging to the genus Thamnophis in the family Colubridae. They are native to North and...
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Look up garter in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A garter is an article of clothing used to hold up stockings. Garter may also refer to: Garter snake...
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The common garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis) is a species of snake in the subfamily Natricinae of the family Colubridae. The species is indigenous to...
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A sleeve garter is a garter worn on the sleeve of a shirt. It came into wide use, especially in the US, in the latter half of the 19th century when men's...
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The Most Noble Order of the Garter is a British order of chivalry. It is the world's oldest national order of knighthood in continuous existence and the...
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Butler's garter snake (Thamnophis butleri) is a species of garter snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to North America. The specific...
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The Texas garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis annectens) is a subspecies of the common garter snake (T. sirtalis). The subspecies, which belongs to the...
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Elapsoidea (redirect from African garter snakes)
known as African garter snakes, in the family Elapidae. Despite their common names, they are unrelated to the harmless North American garter snakes of the...
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Garter Principal King of Arms (also Garter King of Arms or simply Garter) is the senior king of arms and officer of arms of the College of Arms, the heraldic...
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The giant garter snake (Thamnophis gigas) is the largest species of garter snake. Relatively rare, it is a semi-aquatic snake with a limited distribution...
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The eastern garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis) is a medium-sized snake indigenous to North America. The scientific name Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis...
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Thamnophis couchii, commonly known as Couch's garter snake, the Sierra garter snake, or the western aquatic garter snake, is a species of snake in the family...
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A garter spring is a coiled steel spring that is connected at each end to create a circular shape, and is used in oil seals, shaft seals, belt-driven motors...
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The checkered garter snake (Thamnophis marcianus) is a species of garter snake in the subfamily Natricinae of the family Colubridae. The species is endemic...
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Common names: blackneck garter snake, black-neck garter snake Thamnophis cyrtopsis, the blackneck garter snake, is a species of garter snake of the genus Thamnophis...
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Honi soit qui mal y pense (redirect from Motto of the Order of the Garter)
chivalric Order of the Garter, the highest of all British knighthoods, except in Scotland. King Edward III founded the Order of the Garter around the time of...
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The Most Noble Order of the Garter was founded by Edward III of England in 1348. Dates shown are of nomination or installation; coloured rows indicate...
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Garters may refer to: Red Garters (film), a 1954 musical starring Rosemary Clooney Red Garters (album), a soundtrack album from the film "Red Garters"...
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Shirt stays (redirect from Shirt garters)
Shirt stays are elastic straps that connect the bottom of a dress shirt to the socks or feet. There are two main varieties: those that loop around the...
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The aquatic garter snake (Thamnophis atratus) is a species of colubrid snake. Three subspecies are currently recognized. It is found exclusively along...
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Royal Star & Garter is a charitable trust established in 1916 in Richmond, London to care for severely disabled young men returning from the First World...
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direct jurisdiction of the monarch), and the Chapel of the Order of the Garter. St George's Chapel was founded in the 14th century by King Edward III and...
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The plains garter snake (Thamnophis radix) is a species of garter snake native to most of the central United States as far north as Canada and as far south...
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Elapsoidea loveridgei (redirect from Loveridge's garter snake)
Elapsoidea loveridgei, Loveridge's garter snake or East African garter snake, is a species of snake of the family Elapidae. The snake is found in east...
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The Star and Garter is a pub in Manchester, England, with a room upstairs for club nights and gigs, on Fairfield Street behind Piccadilly railway station...
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The Garter is an oil on canvas painting by French painter Jean-François de Troy, from 1724. It is held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York....
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The Chicago garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis semifasciatus), is a subspecies of the common garter snake native to the Chicago, United States, region....
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The western terrestrial garter snake (Thamnophis elegans) is a western North American species of colubrid snake. At least five subspecies are recognized...
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