Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Girdle (St. Colman’s)

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Girdle (Florimel’s).

Girdle of Venus.

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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.

Girdle (St. Colman’s)

would meet only round the chaste.

“In Ireland it yet remains to be proved whether St. Colman’s girdle has not lost its virtue” [the reference is to Charles S. Parnell].—Nineteenth Century, Feb., 1891, p. 206.

Girdle (Florimel’s).

Girdle of Venus.

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