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English
Etymology
From girdle + stead.
Pronunciation
Noun
girdlestead (plural girdlesteads)
- (obsolete) That part of the body where the girdle is worn, i.e. the waist.
1605 August (first performance), Geo Chapman, Ben Ionson, Ioh Marston, Eastward Hoe. , London: ">…] for William Aspley, published September 1605, →OCLC, Act III, scene ii, signature E, recto:iuide your ſelfe in two halfes, iuſt by the girdleſtead;
, Homer, “The Fifth Booke of Homers Iliads”, in Geo Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. , London: Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC, page 74:he Lance his target tooke, / Which could not interrupt the blow, that through it cleerly ſtrooke, / And in his bellies rimme was ſheath’d, beneath his girdle-ſtead;
c. 1604–1626, doubtfully attributed to Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Faithful Friends”, in Henry Weber, editor, The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, in Fourteen Volumes: , volume I, Edinburgh: F C and J Rivington; , published 1812, →OCLC, Act III, scene ii, page 72:hey have made me swell above the girdle-stead.
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