G-string

• G string

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Possibly from girdle-string, attested from the 19th century, but uncertain. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

G-string (plural G-strings)

1. An especially thin thong worn as underwear or swimwear, with a thin strip of fabric that passes between the buttocks.

   Coordinate terms: C-string, tanga

   • 1954, Ian Fleming, “Table Z”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 59:

     Her hands snaked down to her sides and suddenly she had torn away the strip of lace. She threw it into the audience. There was nothing now but a single black G-string.

2. A type of loincloth or breechcloth.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:G-string.

G-string (plural G-strings)

1. (music) A string on a musical instrument tuned to the note G.