(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 23:53:41

Gir"dle*stead (?), n. [Girdle + stead place.]

1.

That part of the body where the girdle is worn.

[Obs.]

Sheathed, beneath his girdlestead. Chapman.

2.

The lap.

[R.]

There fell a flower into her girdlestead. Swinburne.

 

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