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The etymology of the term ''G-string'' is uncertain, with the [[Merriam-Webster]] dictionary describing it as "unknown".<ref name=IH/>
[[William Safire]] in his ''Ode on a G-String'' quoted the usage of the word "G-string" for loincloth in ''[[New York Times]]''. Safire also mentions the opinion of linguist Robert Hendrickson that G (or gee) stands for [[groin]], which was a [[taboo word]] at the time.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/04/magazine/on-language-ode-on-a-g-string.html |title=On Language; Ode on a G-String |first=William |last=Safire |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=August 4, 1991 |access-date=2017-02-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170331190731/http://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/04/magazine/on-language-ode-on-a-g-string.html |archive-date=2017-03-31 |url-status=live }}</ref> Rachel Shteir refers to Hendrickson's opinion in her book "Striptease" and adds that during the [[Great Depression]], a "G-string" was known as "the gadget", a double-entendre that referred to a handyman's "contrivance", an all-purpose word for the thing that might "fix" things.<ref name="Shteir2004">{{cite book|first=Rachel |last=Shteir|title=Striptease:The Untold History of the Girlie Show|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mn48DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA202|access-date=10 March 2013|date=1 November 2004|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|isbn=978-0-19-512750-8|page=202}}</ref>▼
▲Safire also mentions the opinion of linguist Robert Hendrickson that G (or gee) stands for [[groin]], which was a [[taboo word]] at the time.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/04/magazine/on-language-ode-on-a-g-string.html |title=On Language; Ode on a G-String |first=William |last=Safire |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=August 4, 1991 |access-date=2017-02-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170331190731/http://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/04/magazine/on-language-ode-on-a-g-string.html |archive-date=2017-03-31 |url-status=live }}</ref> Rachel Shteir refers to Hendrickson's opinion in her book "Striptease" and adds that during the [[Great Depression]], a "G-string" was known as "the gadget", a double-entendre that referred to a handyman's "contrivance", an all-purpose word for the thing that might "fix" things.<ref name="Shteir2004">{{cite book|first=Rachel |last=Shteir|title=Striptease:The Untold History of the Girlie Show|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mn48DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA202|access-date=10 March 2013|date=1 November 2004|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|isbn=978-0-19-512750-8|page=202}}</ref>
[[Cecil Adams]], author of the blog [[The Straight Dope]], has proposed an origin from "[[girdle]]-string", which is attested as early as 1846.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/262/what-does-the-g-in-g-string-stand-for | title = What does the G in G-string stand for? | date = 2010-09-02 | last1 = Adams | first1 = Cecil | author-link1 = Cecil Adams | website = [[The Straight Dope]] | access-date = 2014-12-21 | quote = ''Littell's Living Age'', Vol. IX, 1846: 'Their arms were a small hatchet, stuck in their girdle-string.' While that hardly proves G-string is an abbreviation of girdlestring, the fact that the latter word existed and means the same as G-string supports my conjecture that the shorter term derived from the longer. | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150225024121/http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/262/what-does-the-g-in-g-string-stand-for | archive-date = 2015-02-25 | url-status = live }}</ref>
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