gird in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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She closed by exhorting her readers to arise and gird yourselves for this great moral conflict.
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A black cassock with amaranth piping and buttons, girded with a purple fascia, serves as pian dress (academic dress) for an honorary prelate or protonotary apostolic.
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The one-naved church room with gallery is girded with thick walls made out of quarried basalt, a typical local building material.
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In this final restoration, reinforced concrete anchors were used to secure the towers, which were girded by iron rings.
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Wrangling is its abhorrence; no man there girds himself against his fellow.
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Gird built a crude assay furnace in the cabin's fireplace.
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In the middle of the village, on a rocky knoll, a church was built in 1580 and was girded by a defensive wall.
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Already, residents and ratepayers are girding for battle -- not in my backyard, thanks very much.
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In 1292, it had already become a town girded with a wall and with a castle.
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Gird up your loins; fresh courage take.
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