girdle — OET · Shobdo

girdle

noun

1 round his waist was a diamond-studded girdle:

belt, sash, strap, cummerbund, waistband, band, girth, cord, fillet;

Japanese obi;

rare baldric, cincture, ceinture, cestus, cingulum, zone.

2 her stockings were held up by her girdle:

corset, corselet, foundation garment, panty girdle;

Medicine truss.

verb

literary

a formal garden girdled the house:

surround, enclose, encircle, circle, ring, encompass, circumscribe, border, bound, edge, skirt, fringe, form a ring around, form a barrier round;

close in, shut in, fence in, wall in, hem in, pen up/in, lock in, cut off, confine;

literary gird, engird, compass.

girdle (1) Oxford Dictionary of English