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• n  an encircling or ringlike structure
• n  a band of material around the waist that strengthens a skirt or trousers
• n  a woman's close-fitting foundation garment
• v  cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients
  girdle the plant
• v  put a girdle on or around

• Munsingwear feels the pinchInventor Knut Bjorn-Larsen might not have hollered "Eureka!" when he developed a garterless girdle back in 1965.
• Josh Quittner enlists his daughters to judge a girdle-off between two new products that are, essentially, Spanx for men.
• Who says girdles are for girls? A fancy new undershirt sucks in your beer gut so you don't have to.

• cincture
• sash
• waistband
• waistcloth
• corset
• stays
• deaden
• gird

News & Articles

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• High school reunion stories talk about love, cars and a holey girdle
  New love, old friends, dances, cars and girdles - all were found among dozens of emailed and hand-written responses to our request for your high school reunion stories.
  June 30, 2013 - Tulsa World

Quotes

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• Betty Friedan in Los Angeles Times
  As January Jones, who plays Draper's wife, Betty, noted, "when you take the girdle off at the end of the day, everything sort of falls."
• Toby Gerhart in San Jose Mercury News
  You're basically there in your girdle, walking the stage,Gerhart joked. "The interviews are supposed to be really intense. You sit down in a room with the owner and the general manager and the coach and the position coach and the team...
• Gwyneth Paltrow in Starpulse.com (blog)
  Paltrow says, "They are awful. It's been five months and I'm still wearing a girdle."