chastity belt

chastity belt

noun
a beltlike device, worn by women especially in the Middle Ages, designed to prevent sexual intercourse.

Origin:
1930–35

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chastity belt
 
n
a locking beltlike device with a loop designed to go between a woman's legs in order to prevent her from having sexual intercourse

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Chastity belt is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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