GIRDLESTEAD

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

That part of the body where the girdle is worn. [Obs.] Sheathed, beneath his girdlestead. Chapman.

2.
n.

The lap. [R.] There fell a flower into her girdlestead. Swinburne.


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