| 单词 | beneath the girdle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbeneath (also above, up to, etc.) the girdle a. The part of the body round which the girdle is fastened; only in phrases beneath (also above, up to, etc.) the girdle. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > [noun] > middle of trunk or waist middleeOE mideOE girdlec1275 rondelc1300 girdlesteadc1330 waistc1386 belt steadc1540 girding-place1601 midriff1823 beltline1892 midsection1956 c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 664 Þe merminnen þat beoð deor of muchele ginnen. wifmen hit þunchet fuliwis bi-neoðe þon gurdle [c1300 Otho gurdel] hit þuncheð fisc. 13.. K. Alis. 6449 Eren they haveth an ellen long, That byneothe theo gurdel hit hongith. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Biv A persone setyng in the trone of god, which from the gyrdell downwarde was al lyke fyer. 1624 Ld. Keeper J. Williams in S. R. Gardiner Fortescue Papers (1871) 203 And allreadye up to the gyrdle in his grave. 1632 T. E. Lawes Womens Rights 315 It was greater shame to strike vnder the girdle than it is now. 1691 J. Hartcliffe Treat. Virtues 75 It was a favourable and merry Conceit of a Cardinal of Rome, that there was no Law beneath the Girdle. a1734 R. North Lives of Norths (1826) I. 124 This great man..married his own servant maid and then for excuse, said there was no wisdom below the girdle. < as lemmas |
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