10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GIRDLESTEAD»
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Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and ...
body was frequently known by the name " girdlestead."* Thus Stubbs says in the
Anatomy of Abuses, " some short " scarcely reaching to the girdlestead or waste,
and some to the " knee." The following is from Chaucers description of Mirth, ...
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Costume in England: A History of Dress from the Earliest ...
GIRDLESTEAD. The waist ; the place of the girdle. " For hete her clothes down
she dede, Almost to her gerdylstcde." Lay of Sir Launfal. In Stubbes's Anatomy of
Abuses is the passage: " Some short, scarcely reaching to the. girdlestead, ...
Frederick William Fairholt, 1860
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A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and ...
The point or period of noon; from stead, place ; as girdlestead, C. Beyond the
noonstcad go far drove his triune. Brown, Br. Past. P 2. 9. Such as high heav'n
were able to affright, And on the noonsted bring a double night. Drayt. Mooncalf,
p.
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The riches of Chaucer: in which his impurities have been ...
... His shoulderds of largd brede,5 390 And smallish in the girdlestead ; * He
seemdd like a portraiture, So noble' he was of his stature, So fair, so jolly', and so
fetise, With limbds wrought at point devise,7 395 Deliver,5 smart, and of great
might, ...
5
A Select Collection of Old Plays: In Twelve Volumes
Excellent easily : divide yourself into two halfs, just by the girdlestead 33 ; send
one half with your lady, and keep t'other to yourself. Or else do as all true lovers
do, part with your heart, and leave your body behind. I have seen't done a
hundred ...
Robert Dodsley, Isaac Reed, Octavius Gilchrist, 1825
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A Select Collection of Old Plays: The malcontent; All fools; ...
Excellent easily : divide yourself into two halfs, just by the girdlestead 33; send
one half with your lady, and keep t'other to yourself. Or else do as all true lovers
do, part with your heart, and leave your body behind. I have seen't done a
hundred ...
Robert Dodsley, Isaac Reed, Octavius Gilchrist, 1825
7
The Works of Beaumont & Fletcher: The Text Formed from a New ...
208 Gingle-boy x. 221 girdler 354 girdlestead iv. 253 gird 173 girds 131 give me
dead viii. 459 give me myself v. 236 giving up v. 410 gladder of all iv. 133 gleek ix
. 233 gloats vi. 153 glorious i. 122, ii. 105, ii. 423, vi. 287, 380, 65 gloriously vi.
Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, Alexander Dyce, 1846
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A glossary and etymological dictionary of obsolete and ...
To slen him and to girie* off his hed. (.'halter's MoNIES Talk. Seine moved, he will
not spare to gird the gods. Coriolanus. Girdlestead (S. gircll and stede), the place
where a girdle is worn. The old Saxon word stede is still retained in bedstead, ...
... 280 And sweeter than the roses fresh with dew Sweet odours floated round me
, as she drew Some golden thing from out her balmy breast With her right hand,
the while her left hand pressed The hidden wonders of her girdlestead;" 285 And
...
William Morris, Florence Saunders Boos, 2002
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Costume in England: A History of Dress from the Earliest ...
GIRDLESTEAD. The waist ; the place of the girdle. " For hete her clothes down
she dede, Almost to her gerdylstede." Lay of Sir Launfal. In Stubbes' Anatomy of
Abuses is the passage : " some short, scarcely reaching to the girdlestead, ...
Frederick William Fairholt, 1846
