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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′tÅ«r, 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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