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    especially if a cord or rope, is called a girdle in various contexts, especially historical ones, where girdles were a very common part of everyday clothing...
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    of a branch or trunk of a woody plant. Girdling prevents the tree from sending nutrients from its foliage to its roots, resulting in the death of the...
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  • Look up girdle in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A girdle is a garment that encircles the midsection. Girdle may also refer to: Girdle (undergarment)...
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    A girdle is a form-fitting foundation garment that encircles the lower torso, extending below the hips, and worn often to shape or for support. It may...
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    The shoulder girdle or pectoral girdle is the set of bones in the appendicular skeleton which connects to the arm on each side. In humans it consists of...
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  • Girdle-measurers were practitioners of a specific type of curative English folk magic. They claimed to be able to tell whether fairies had placed a person...
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  • Girdle of Venus may refer to: Girdle of Aphrodite, a magical accessory of Aphrodite/Venus The belt of Venus, an atmospheric phenomenon An alternative name...
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    Girdle books were small portable books worn by medieval European monks, clergymen and aristocratic nobles as a popular accessory to medieval costume,...
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    the hip girdle, thigh, shoulder girdle, and/or upper arm. The muscle weakness is generally symmetric. Usually, the hip girdle is the first area to exhibit...
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    The magical Girdle of Aphrodite or Venus (Greek: ἱμάς, himás: 'strap, thong'; κεστός, kestós: 'girdle, belt'; Latin: cingulum Veneri, cestus Veneris)...
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    The Venus girdle (Cestum veneris) is a comb jelly in the family Cestidae. It is the only member of its genus, Cestum, and is also the largest of all known...
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    The Girdle of Thomas, Virgin's Girdle, Holy Belt, or Sacra Cintola in modern Italian, is a Christian relic in the form of a "girdle" or knotted textile...
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    the same girdle thickness at all 16 "thick parts". So-called "cheated" girdles have thicker girdles where the main facets touch the girdle than where...
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  • Senator Girdler may refer to: Chris Girdler (born 1979), Kentucky State Senate Rick Girdler (born 1955), Kentucky State Senate This disambiguation page...
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    Pelvis (redirect from Human pelvic girdle)
    region of the trunk. It is subdivided into the pelvic girdle and the pelvic spine. The pelvic girdle is composed of the appendicular hip bones (ilium, ischium...
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  • Limb girdle syndrome is a term to describe several distinct medical conditions including polymyositis, myopathy associated with endocrine disease, metabolic...
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    Iliad and elsewhere meaning "war belt". Some English translations prefer "girdle". Hippolyta figures prominently in the myths of both Heracles and Theseus...
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    Retrieved 22 January 2016. Polidoro, 2011: 27-28 Dingwall, Eric J (1931). The Girdle of Chastity: A Medico-Historical Study. Routledge. Archived from the original...
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  • Company of Girdlers, a Livery Company of the City of London Wikimedia Commons has media related to Girdlers. "Girdler - Origin of the name". Girdler.com. Retrieved...
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  • lining of her girdle. Unknown to him she is about to elope with Evans the Milk, the local milkman. Shortly before she does, she sells the girdle and buys a...
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