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On a Girdle by Edmund Waller
That which her slender waist confined Shall now my joyful temples bind; No monarch but would give his crown His arms might do what this has done.
It was my Heaven's extremest sphere, The pale which held that lovely deer: My joy, my grief, my hope, my love Did all within this circle move.
A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that's good, and all that's fair: Give me but what this ribbon bound, Take all the rest the Sun goes round.
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And we thought it was just a creative misspelling: http://www.cingular.com/
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Yep, that's what I always thought, Faldage...just some corporate cutsieness. Guess not.
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Guess not
I dunno. If you take into account the notion of choking off that would seem to me to be inherent in cingularity
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cingulum - The Latin word for ‘girdle, belt’ [f. root of cingere to gird], occasionally used as a technical term for a. The girdle of a priest's alb. b. A surgical cincture or girdle; also the part of the body round which a girdle is worn, the waist. c. Anat. A band of dental substance surrounding the base of the crown of the tooth in some animals. d. Zool. The transverse series of bony bands in the armour of the armadillo...
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Then there is horse headgear: surcingle surcingle ME surcengle < MFr < OFr sur3, SUR31 + L cingulum, a belt: see CINGULUM6 1 a strap passed around a horse‘s body to bind on a saddle, blanket, pack, etc. 2 [Historical] the belt of a cassock
Cassock - There was a young monk from Dundee Who lifted his cassock to pee Said he: Pax vobiscum Why won't the piss come Can it be I have the C L A P?
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