loins
Britishplural noun
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the hips and the inner surface of the legs where they join the trunk of the body; crotch
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euphemistic the reproductive organs
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literary the womb
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Example Sentences
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But when audiences girded their loins for the sequel—this one as lavishly supported by glossy publishers as its earlier version was disavowed—there was a single character whose zippy quippiness was most anticipated.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026
For Jones and his salvation army it's a day to gird the loins and fight back.
From BBC • Feb. 11, 2026
Then they’re cleaned by hand and the loins are separated from the belly before the meat is tightly hand-packed in cans and jars.
From Washington Post • Jan. 29, 2023
“As if I were not her very own child,” Harry, the novel’s sole narrator, says, “as if I were not the flesh of her loins, as if I were instead some foreign pathogenic prototype.”
From Seattle Times • Jul. 19, 2022
The child in her body hung from her lean loins like a knotty fruit and from her face every particle of flesh was gone, so that the jagged bones stood forth rock-like under her skin.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
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