Girdles
[gɜ:dlz]
Examples
- All wore strange protruding girdles of dried grass about their hips and many were loaded with brass and copper anklets, armlets and bracelets. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Moreover, Cr?sus dedicated the ornaments from his wife's neck and her girdles. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They stand clothed in white, girdled with golden girdles; they uplift vials, brimming with the wrath of God. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- So they fastened belt-claws to their stout girdles and tugged the bow strings into place with their back and leg muscles. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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