Aphʹrodite (4 syl.)

The Greek Venus; so called because she sprang from the foam of the sea. (Greek, aphros, foam.)

Aphʹrodite’s Girdle. Whoever wore Aphrodite’s magic girdle, immediately became the object of love. (Greek mythology.)

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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