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plural cinctures
An enclosure, or the act of enclosing, encircling or encompassing examples
A girdle or belt, especially as part of a vestment quotations examples
In one, dated eighteen years ago, he appeared, wearing only sandals and a cincture of vine leaves, between two classical garden statues.
1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, page 161
(architecture) The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column. examples
third-person singular simple present cinctures, present participle cincturing, simple past and past participle cinctured
To encircle, or surround. examples
(viniculture) To girdle (stunt or kill by cutting). examples