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Girdle (St. Colman’s)

would meet only round the chaste.

“In Ireland it yet remains to be proved whether St. Colman’s girdle has not lost its virtue” [the reference is to Charles S. Parnell].—Nineteenth Century, Feb., 1891, p. 206.

 

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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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Giovanni (Don)
Gipsy (g soft)
Gipsy (The)
Giralda (g soft)
Gird
Gird up the Loins (To)
Girder (A)
Girdle (g hard)
Girdle (Florimel’s)
Girdle (St. Colman’s)
Girdle of Venus
Girl
Girondists (g soft)
Girouette
Gis (g soft)
Gitanos
Give and Take (policy)
Give it Him (To)
Give the Boys a Holiday
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