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Meanings of girdle in inglês
Women's underwear, often partly or entirely of elastic or boned, for supporting and shaping the appearance of the abdomen, hips, and buttocks.
Synonyms
Examples for "sash"
Examples for "sash"
1
The sash was thrown up and the boy glowered in the opening.
2
Lumley left his thumb-prints in the putty he stuck in his window-sash.
3
He felt for the ends of the sash and worked them free.
4
The official wears a red sash across the front of his coat.
5
His fresh kilt was held up by a heavy, braided gold sash.
1
As it was the sword pierced the waistband of his nether garments.
2
Michael got his hands free and pulled the Luger from his waistband.
3
Also, I had a huge amount of spare room inside the waistband.
4
But he left the room with my gun still in his waistband.
5
The poor man fetched a sigh from the waistband of his trowsers.
1
He draws it about his waist with the cincture, or white cord.
2
An alb secured with a cincture cannot be moved to the side.
3
He looked down at his breast, saw the glowing cincture, and smiled.
4
His caped cassock was black, with purple buttons and a purple cincture.
5
He threw himself back in an arm-chair, tucking his hands into his cincture.
1
Here, take this dollar, and tie it up in the corner of your waistcloth.
2
For instance, they have doors and verandahs to their huts, work skins perfectly, and wear a waistcloth and not a moocha.
3
There we stripped off our outer garments till Bes was naked save for his waistcloth and I was clad only in a jerkin.
4
There was otherwise no change in Tomaso's habiliments, which consisted, as usual, of dark trousers, a white shirt, and a dark-blue faja or waistcloth.
5
He was dressed in all the dignity of a woollen shirt, with a piece of fine "tapa" for a waistcloth, feet and legs bare.
Usage of girdle in inglês
1
And so I took the pistol and carried it in my girdle.
2
The girdle, the connecting-bands, and the motor were then in turn unpacked.
3
And the Princess Joceliande laughed, and replaced the scissors in her girdle.
4
He again took off the girdle and put it in my hands.
5
Again the feeble remnant of the Hawaiian race voted against the girdle.
6
The only dress of the men is a girdle encircling the loins.
7
And then his hand touched the apples that were in his girdle.
8
However, quadriceps muscles were consistently spared both in distal and limb-girdle phenotypes.
9
The girdle was often tied around it instead of round the tunic.
10
With a mischievous smile she touched the roses nodding in her girdle.
11
Then the cobbler took a girdle and painted this rhyme upon it:
12
The pieces bear processes which rest against neighboring pieces of the girdle.
13
A ciliated girdle is placed at the edge of the sucking disk.
14
The effect of this is to girdle the tree which soon dies.
15
A girdle of large pink pearls confined the robe at the waist.
16
And a girdle of the same colours, as the Lord had commanded
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Girdle through the time
Girdle across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common