girdle

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gir·dle1 /ˈɡɜːdl $ ˈɡɜːr-/ noun [countable]  DCCa piece of women’s underwear which fits tightly around her stomach, bottom, and hips and makes her look thinner 〔女子的〕紧身褡

Examples from the Corpus

girdle• The fashionable and becoming gown and girdle were her only concessions to style and conformity.• The slight indecency of nakedness, emphasized by her stockings, four times suspended to an elastic girdle, bothered her.• Avoid wearing tight panty girdles or below-the-knee stockings, Mohler also advised.• He was holding a lady's girdle and he swivelled it like moving hips.• Some see in it the girdle ot hymen and the promise of the immaculate conception of a Messiah.• For its part, Pan Am must have viewed the girdle as a kind of modern-day chastity belt.• He was able to fight off the others and get away with the girdle.girdle2 verb [transitive] literary  to surround something 围绕，环绕 the formal garden that girdled the house 环绕屋子布置井然的花园→ See Verb table

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girdle• He glanced briefly about him before continuing along the scattered fringe of trees that girdled it.• Spiderglass could not die: a chain of spiderglass hubs girdled the orbit of Earth.Origin girdle Old English gyrdel

gir·dle1 noungirdle2 verbChineseSyllable  

her around a which fits of women’s piece underwear Corpus tightly

girdle

I

gir‧dle¹ /ˈɡɜːdl $ ˈɡɜːr-/ noun [countable]a piece of women’s underwear which fits tightly around her stomach, bottom, and hips and makes her look thinner

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girdle² verb [transitive] literary
to surround something:
    the formal garden that girdled the house