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IAmWithName2 Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary
Meaning ungirdled (hips)
Hi,
Reading Irwin Shaw's The Young Lions, I'm puzzled by the following use of 'ungirdled (hips)'. The sentence is: "There were two girls, with flat, pretty faces and models' bony ungirdled hips, who were drinking whiskey straight."
Does ungirdled (hips) refer to a piece of clothing or does it refer to models' body characteristics?
Anybody?
Cheers,
Jan
Reading Irwin Shaw's The Young Lions, I'm puzzled by the following use of 'ungirdled (hips)'. The sentence is: "There were two girls, with flat, pretty faces and models' bony ungirdled hips, who were drinking whiskey straight."
Does ungirdled (hips) refer to a piece of clothing or does it refer to models' body characteristics?
Anybody?
Cheers,
Jan
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I understand it to mean that they were not wearing girdles (old-fashioned undergarments designed to shape a woman's figure).
- I understand it to mean that they were not wearing girdles (old-fashioned undergarments designed to shape a woman's figure).
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I understand it to mean that they were not wearing girdles (old-fashioned undergarments designed to shape a woman's figure).
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Thanks, GPY, this is helpful. I had a wrong conception of a girdle.
Cheers, Jan
Cheers, Jan
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Without looking into this, I interpret it as: the girls were very thin, like fashion models are, no extra weight anywhere on their bodies, in fact, their hips were actually bony, like a fashion model's, no need for any girdles there, heh!
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