Girdles is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for GIRDLES in dictionary:

VERB:
• GIRDLE, to encircle with a belt
• encircle (the body) with a girdle
• surround; encircle
• cut through the bark all the way round (a tree or branch), typically in order to kill it
NOUN:
• a belt or cord worn round the waist
• a thing that encircles something like a girdle
• either of two sets of bones encircling the body, to which the limbs are attached.
• the part of a cut gem dividing the crown from the base and embraced by the setting.
• a ring made around a tree by removing bark.
• a woman's elasticated corset extending from waist to thigh

Words related to GIRDLES

girdle8 girdled10 girdling11

Words that contain GIRDLES

begirdles13 engirdles11 girdlescone15 girdlestead14 girdlescones16 girdlesteads15

How to use GIRDLES in a sentence

• With graceful sweep their girdles fell, Then in the days of old.
• They were so richly dressed, with such splendid jewels in their girdles, that everyone crowded to see them and the basins of gold they carried on their heads.
• Behind the knights came the barons and the nobles of the mid-country, in robes of silk and cloth of gold, with golden chains about their necks and jewels at their girdles.
• He broke it open and found it full of diamonds, emeralds, and sapphires richly set in girdles and bracelets and rings.
• Round their waists were fastened stiff girdles of the breadth of the hand, ornamented in front with large buttons, and at the sides with smaller ones.
• All bowed to their girdles, and without putting on their caps set out for their waggons and camps.
• Eventually, having exhausted all that this world could offer, she took to hair-shirts and nail-studded girdles, in the hope of securing a good position in the next.
• There we caught our morning view of the forest of date-palm that girdles the town.
• By way of fascinating this young girl, the gobernador had to exert himself to the extent of teaching her how to make girdles and wearing apparel.
• From their girdles hung fresh scalp locks which their silent Monachan owners did not miss.
• The braves, their own heads full of their first campaign, kept fingering lovingly the scalps at their girdles, and paid little attention to her.
• Birth girdles worn by women in childbirth eased their pain.
• As they came nearer, our traveller noticed that they all carried guns as well as fierce-looking daggers stuck in their swathed girdles.
• In the morning the three ladies came, all in white up to their girdles, and escorted him, to the sound of music, into the other room, where, after breakfast, he again fell asleep.
• It had been a custom with Nada from childhood not to go about as do other girls, naked except for their girdles, for she would always find some rag or skin to lie upon her breast.
• Some tribes are entirely naked, while others wear girdles of skin and leaves, hardly sufficient, however, to serve any purpose of decency, much less of comfort.
• They weare also collars, bracelets, garlands, and girdles, of certain blew stones like beads.
• And then she opened a box, and took out girdles which were seemly wrought with golden threads, and upon that were set full precious stones, and a rich buckle of gold.
• The women wore very neatly fringed girdles hanging loose about their loins, and shaded themselves with large fan-palm leaves.
• On the cords are hung grasses, flowers, girdles, and wreaths of young coconut leaves.
• Three tall minarets pierced above the horizon, and each of these wore circles of light which looked like necklaces and girdles of fire.
• Dietrich, carefully instructed by Hildebrand, struck off this cap, and appropriated it, as well as the girdles of strength and the ring of victory.
• Thus the long story of light and shadow girdles the globe.
• But it can be skipped, and, for the rest, there will be found a swift succession of pictures of life and scenery in the Greater Britain that girdles the world.
• He had costly strings of pearls, girdles of precious stones, and a mirror which the wind and the waves obeyed.
• But when we carried him to the sepulchre, his three daughters went before, girded with the heavenly girdles, and giving glory to God in hymns and psalms of thanksgiving.

Similar words containing GIRDLE without suffix s

girdle8 girdled10 girdler9 begirdle12 engirdle10 girdlers10 begirdled14 begirdles13 engirdled12 engirdles11 girdlecake18 girdlecakes19 girdlescone15 girdlestead14 girdlescones16 girdlesteads15

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