GIRDLE


Meaning of GIRDLE in English

I. noun

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■ VERB

wear

Kali wears a girdle of severed human heads.

Avoid wearing tight panty girdles or below-the-knee stockings, Mohler also advised.

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.

For its part, Pan Am must have viewed the girdle as a kind of modern-day chastity belt.

He was able to fight off the others and get away with the girdle .

He was holding a lady's girdle and he swivelled it like moving hips.

Some see in it the girdle ot hymen and the promise of the immaculate conception of a Messiah.

The fashionable and becoming gown and girdle were her only concessions to style and conformity.

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.

Spiderglass could not die: a chain of spiderglass hubs girdled the orbit of Earth.

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