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| 27 | 790 | Some conjecture that the original View more quotes about meaning">meaning of 'slave bow' has to do with exhibition. |
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| 27 | 787 | These exhibition bows are often utilized in showing the slave, as they accentuate the delights of her figure. |
| 27 | 788 | There are a number of "tethering slave bows," of course, for example, for fastening a slave over a saddle, a wheel, a piece of furniture, or such. |
| 27 | 789 | These diverse uses and meanings, of course, are not mutually exclusive, because a slave might well be displayed in a "tethering slave bow". |
| 27 | 790 | Some conjecture that the original meaning of 'slave bow' has to do with exhibition. |
| 27 | 791 | Accordingly, it is their speculation that the "tethering slave bows" are derivative from that primary usage, that of exhibition. |
| 27 | 792 | This would make sense because the "tethering slave bows" certainly do exhibit the slave, as well as rendering her helpless. |
| 27 | 793 | Others seem to feel that the basic meaning is that of a form of secure and revelatory binding, in which the slave is helplessly and delightfully displayed, and that the exhibitory usages of the expression are secondary, being founded upon, and derivative from, this more basic, original usage. |