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Difference between Girdle of Venus and Venus’s girdle

girdle of Venus—(Palmistry) a line believed to denote sensitive intellectual nature:

  • Fussing over life-lines and measuring the girdle of Venus seems a desperate and futile way to fill the emptiness in many a woman’s life.

Venus’s girdle—a ribbonlike gelatinous sea creature found in the Mediterranean Sea:

  • In Cestum, or Venus’s Girdle, elongation takes place to an extraordinary extent.