"The sleeveless, low-necked silk tunic, girdled at the waist with a cloth-of-gold cincture..."
-A Witch Shall Be Born
cinc·ture.
[ˈsiNG(k)CHər]
NOUN
cinctures (plural noun)
1.a girdle or belt.
2.a ring at either end of a column shaft.
ORIGIN
late 16th cent. (in the sense ‘encircling or enclosure’): from Latin cinctura, from cinct- ‘encircled,’ from the verb cingere.
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