Sash
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A decorative length of cloth worn as a broad belt or over the shoulder, often for ceremonial or other formal occasions. The opening part of a window usually containing the glass panes, hinged to the jamb, or sliding up and down as in box sash window. A draggable vertical or horizontal bar used to adjust the relative sizes of two adjacent windows.
Girdle
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To gird, encircle, or constrain by such means.To kill or stunt a tree by removing or inverting a ring of bark.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: That which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumferenceA belt; especially, a belt, sash, or article of dress encircling the body usually at the waist, often used to support stockings or hosiery.The zodiac; also, the equator.The line of greatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting.A thin bed or stratum of stone.The clitellum of an earthworm.
Example sentence: It's possible that you have been told a time or 10 that you don't appreciate how tough your elders had it. It's true that, if you had been coming of age back in, say, 1960, you would probably be feeling more restricted, if only because you were doomed to spend your days in a skirt, nylon stockings and girdle.