wear green garters

wear green garters
   obsolete Scottish
   to remain unmarried after a younger sister's wedding
   By tradition, the unmarried elder sister wore green or yellow garters at the wedding of a younger. The taboos surrounding spinsterhood arose from the plight of those women who failed to obtain the support of a husband and were forbidden by convention to seek work to support themselves.

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