:This article's about the item of clothing. In Anatomy it's usual to speak of the shoulder or pectoral girdle and of the pelvic girdle. In the Scots language, girdle refers to a cooking griddle. In malacology a girdle's part of a chiton. The word girdle originally meant a belt. In modern English the term "girdle"'s most commonly used for a form of women's foundation wear that replaced the corset in popularity. History Historically and in anthropology, the girdle can be a scanty belt-shaped texti… (More on Girdle)