The Collaborative International Dictionary
Girdlestead
Girdlestead \Gir"dle*stead\, n. [Girdle + stead place.]
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That part of the body where the girdle is worn. [Obs.]
Sheathed, beneath his girdlestead.
--Chapman. -
The lap. [R.]
There fell a flower into her girdlestead.
--Swinburne.
Wiktionary
girdlestead
n. 1 (context obsolete English) That part of the body where the girdle is worn. 2 (context obsolete English) The lap.
Usage examples of "girdlestead".
She had dight her what she could to welcome his return from the hunting, and had set a wreath of meadow-sweet on her red hair, and a garland of eglantine about her girdlestead, and left her feet naked after the pool of the stream, and had turned the bezels of her finger-rings outward, for joy of that meeting.