I. noun
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wear
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Kali wears a girdle of severed human heads.
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Avoid wearing tight panty girdles or below-the-knee stockings, Mohler also advised.
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The truth is that most of us would wear our girdles only until takeoff.
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Avoid wearing tight panty girdles or below-the-knee stockings, Mohler also advised.
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For its part, Pan Am must have viewed the girdle as a kind of modern-day chastity belt.
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He was able to fight off the others and get away with the girdle .
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He was holding a lady's girdle and he swivelled it like moving hips.
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Some see in it the girdle ot hymen and the promise of the immaculate conception of a Messiah.
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The fashionable and becoming gown and girdle were her only concessions to style and conformity.
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The slight indecency of nakedness, emphasized by her stockings, four times suspended to an elastic girdle , bothered her.
II. verb
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He glanced briefly about him before continuing along the scattered fringe of trees that girdled it.
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Spiderglass could not die: a chain of spiderglass hubs girdled the orbit of Earth.