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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
GIRDLESTEAD
Gir "dle *
stead,
n.
Etym:
[
Girdle
+
stead
place.
]
1.
That
part
of
the
body
where
the
girdle
is
worn.
[
Obs.
]
Sheathed,
beneath
his
girdlestead.
Chapman.
2.
The
lap.
[R.]
There
fell
a
flower
into
her
girdlestead.
Swinburne.
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