Usage examples for gaiter:

• But we of the present generation who recently passed through these experiences have already accepted them without undue excitement, just as our forefathers in their day accepted the submarine cable, the galvanic battery and the congress gaiter "Roughing it De Luxe" – Irvin S. Cobb

• He was again tapping with his cane the gaiter covering his slender, shining boot. "T. Tembarom" – Frances Hodgson Burnett