G-string
noun1
Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music On a stringed musical instrument, the string that produces the note of G.
G-string
nounEtymology Possibly from girdle-string, attested from the 19th century, but uncertain.
1
A scanty covering for the genitalia, with a thin strip of fabric that passes between the buttocks.
- Her hands snaked down to her sides and suddenly she had torn away the strip of lace. She threw it into the audience. There was nothing now but a single black G-string.1954, Ian Fleming, “Table Z”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 59:
2
A type of loincloth or breechcloth.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:G-string.
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