The word "girdle" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to describe a belt, sash, or other article of clothing that encircles the waist. For example: She wore a delicate silver girdle around her waist.
That may sound a long way away, but it is well inside the orbits of the geosynchronous communications satellites that girdle the planet.
Originally it would have hung from a neck chain or girdle.
The fact that banks are allowing their corporate clients to lever themselves up to levels that would make even a pre-crisis banker blush adds to supervisors' resolve to girdle the industry.
The sticharion, which is held by the zōnē, or girdle, corresponds to the alb.
The fully professed monk wears the great, or angelical, habit, which consists of the inner and outer rhasons, girdle, cowl (with veil), analvos, and mandyas (mantle).
During the 20th century the corset was gradually replaced as everyday wear by the brassiere and girdle, but it remained in use in bridal fashions and costume wear into the 21st century.
Among the metal objects represented were: the dagger sword with "horseshoe" or antennae hilt; a variety of brooches and ring ornaments; and girdle mounts, sometimes in pierced work.
Worn suspended from neck or girdle or attached to the finger by a ring, it was believed to be a protection against infections and noxious smells.
Cranial, vertebral, and limb-girdle skeletal traits are the major characters used for the higher categories of classification, and soft (fleshy) anatomical traits are used in addition in those groups with living relatives or where the fossil record has preserved such characters.
It is no coincidence that George Bush junior, one of America's more god-fearing presidents, relaxed by clearing brush.In most rich countries the pressure on forests has eased; but in many tropical ones—home to around half the remaining forest, including the planet's green rainforest girdle the demand for land is increasing as populations rise.
During the reign of the emperor Ningzong (1195 1224) he was awarded the prestigious Golden Girdle.
