Synonyms for cincture

Grammar : Noun

Spell : singk-cher

Phonetic Transcription : ˈsɪŋk tʃər

Définition of cincture

Origin : 1580s, from Latin cinctura "a girdle," from cinctus, past participle of cingere "to surround, encircle" (see cinch (n.)). The verb is recorded from 1757 (implied in Cinctured).

noun band

Example sentences :

Each of us were drawn by him, she with the cincture of Venus, and I with the crescent of Dian.
Extract from : « Ormond, Volume III (of 3) » by Charles Brockden Brown

These women had a cincture of cotton about their loins, but were otherwise nude.
Extract from : « Canyons of the Colorado » by J. W. Powell

He threw himself back in an arm-chair, tucking his hands into his cincture.
Extract from : « The Cathedral » by Joris-Karl Huysmans

Yea, though every knight in the realm essayed to unfasten that cincture, it would not yield, except to one alone.
Extract from : « French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France » by Marie de France

Then she applied the antiseptic dressing, and bound the lint tightly down with a cincture about the animal.
Extract from : « The Surprising Adventures of Sir Toady Lion With Those of General Napoleon Smith » by S. R. Crockett

It stands in marked contrast with the of the valiant Lycians, whose short and spare tunic required no cincture to confine it.
Extract from : « Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 1 of 3 » by W. E. Gladstone

Cincture, singk′tūr, n. a girdle or belt: a moulding round a column.
Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) » by Various

He stood unarmed, except for the knife and war-axe swinging from crimson-beaded sheaths at his cincture.
Extract from : « The Little Red Foot » by Robert W. Chambers

Yet there is no other cincture which will so beautifully express the grace of a lithe young figure.
Extract from : « Kophetua the Thirteenth » by Julian Corbett

Round the waist they wore a broad zone or cincture, flounced on both edges, and embroidered and jewelled in the centre.
Extract from : « The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction » by Various

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