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cincture

NOUN
  1. a band of material around the waist that strengthens a skirt or trousers

How To Use cincture In A Sentence

  • The original object of the subcinctorium was, as St. Thomas explicitly says, to secure the stole to the cincture. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
  • His long robe was of dark cloth, cinctured round the waist with his rich sword-belt, from which was suspended How I Found Livingstone
  • Saw ye not white fog-wreaths floating through the cold gray dawn over ice-laden billows, as they roll through yon rock-cinctured chasm? The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851
  • These tight-fitting cinctures compress and support the abdominal and lower back region while you lift.
  • Richard Polwhele's "Unsexed Females," where he asks us to picture an "unsex'd" woman's body: "Scarce by a gossamery film carest,/Sport [s], in full view, the meretricious breast;" he then guides us to undress the woman farther, to "Loose the chaste cincture, where the graces shone,/And languish'd all the Loves, the ambrosial zone. 'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_
  •     Binds not a cincture smooth her bosom's orbed emotion. Poems and Fragments
  • Europe are: the under-tunic (alb), the cincture, stole, chasuble, and omophorion (pallium). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
  • Standing back, she saw that his right hand was bandaged, and that he wore a long farm-knife under the cincture of his red-stained tunic.
  • Millner, as mechanically, took one of the virginally cinctured cigars, and began to undo its wrappings. The Blond Beast
  • Richmond Tigers, formed in Melbourne, Victoria, have been good well good well good well known for their black unvaried with a yellow cincture from a left shoulder to a right hip. Archive 2009-11-01
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