Garter vs. Suspender — What's the Difference?

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, they were tied just below the knee, where the leg is most slender, to keep the stocking from slipping.

One, such as a hook, that suspends something else.

An elasticized band worn around the leg to hold up a stocking or sock.

An often elastic strap worn over the shoulder, usually in pairs, to hold up a pair of pants.

A suspender strap with a fastener attached to a girdle or belt to hold up a stocking or sock.

Suspenders A pair of such straps.

An elasticized band worn around the arm to keep the sleeve pushed up.

Chiefly British A garter.

The badge of the Order of the Garter.

Something or someone who suspends.

The order itself.

(US) An item of apparel consisting of a strap worn over the shoulder and used to hold up trousers.

Membership in the order.

(British) An item of apparel used to hold up a sock or (now especially) a stocking, such as a garter, or each of the fastening-straps attached to a corset or suspender belt.

To fasten and hold with a garter.

One who, or that which, suspends; esp., one of a pair of straps or braces worn over the shoulders, for holding up the trousers.

To put a garter on.

Elastic straps that hold trousers up (usually used in the plural)

A band worn around the leg to hold up a sock or stocking.

(heraldry) A bendlet.

To fasten with a garter

A band used to prevent a stocking from slipping down on the leg.

The distinguishing badge of the highest order of knighthood in Great Britain, called the Order of the Garter, instituted by Edward III.; also, the Order itself.

Same as Bendlet.

To bind with a garter.

To invest with the Order of the Garter.

A band (usually elastic) worn around the leg to hold up a stocking (or around the arm to hold up a sleeve)

Fasten with or as if with a garter