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- From be- + girdle. (Wiktionary)
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“No; if you could mount to the stars and do yacht voyages under the belts of Jupiter or stalk deer on the ring of Saturn it would still begirdle you.”
“Like a ring of lightning, they, volleying and ca-ira-ing, begirdle her from shore to shore.”
“Stately masonries, long-drawn arches, cloisters, sounding aisles buttress it, begirdle it far and wide.”
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.
“Stately masonries, longdrawn arches, cloisters, sounding aisles buttress it, begirdle it far and wide.”
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