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Cincture   Listen
noun
Cincture  n.  
1.
A belt, a girdle, or something worn round the body, as by an ecclesiastic for confining the alb.
2.
That which encompasses or incloses; an inclosure. "Within the cincture of one wall."
3.
(Arch.) The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column.





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"Cincture" Quotes from Famous Books



... from her, and near she came to falling on the ground. Meriadus caught her in his arms, and cut the laces of her bodice, that she might have the more air. He strove to unfasten her girdle, but might not dissever the clasp. Yea, though every knight in the realm essayed to unfasten that cincture, it would not yield, except ...
— French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France • Marie de France


Words linked to "Cincture" :   waistcloth, girdle, band


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