Noun: girdle
| Singular | girdle |
| Plural | girdles |
Sample Sentences
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the girdle of the world (the equator)
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Suppose within the girdle of these walls
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Are now confin'd two mighty monarchies [1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, prologue]:]
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from the world's girdle to the frozen pole [1782, William Cowper, Expostulation:]
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In yonder pensile orb, and every sphere
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that gems the starry girdle of the year [1799, Thomas Campbell, Pleasures of Hope:]
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And the seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven plagues, clothed in pure and white linen, and having their breasts girded with golden girdles [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 15:6:]
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O Queen, most exalted of Persia's deep-girdled women, venerable mother of Xerxes, wife of Darius, all hail! [Aeschylus, The Persians 155]
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She therefore assumed the novice's garb, so universally worn by young Italians—a robe of black silk, only fastened round the waist by a girdle. [1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 109:]
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Her little chambers drip with flower-like red,
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Her girdles, and the chaplets of her head,
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Her armlets and her anklets; with her feet
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She tramples all that winepress of the dead. [1862-1866, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Laus Veneris:]
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Tradition credits John the Baptist with wearing a girdle fashioned of wormwood, while he was in the wilderness. [1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 1:]
Nouns inflected like girdle
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English girdel, gerdel, gurdel, from Old English gyrdel, from Proto-West Germanic *gurdil, from Proto-Germanic *gurdilaz (“girdle, belt”), equivalent to gird + -le.
2. Cognates
3. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Gäddel (“belt”), West Frisian gurdle, gurle, gurl (“belt”), Dutch gordel (“belt”), German Gürtel (“belt”), Yiddish גאַרטל (gartl, “belt”) (whence gartel, a doublet of girdle), Swedish gördel (“girdle”), Icelandic gyrðill (“girdle”). See: Middle English Nouns '
girdel', Old English Nouns '
gyrdel', Dutch Nouns '
gordel', German Nouns '
Gürtel', Swedish Nouns '
gördel', Icelandic Nouns '
gyrðill'.
Verbs referencing "girdle"
Old Norse Nouns
gyrðill.