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cincture
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Webster's 1828 Dictionary
CINCTURE
n. 1. A belt, a girdle, or something worn round the body.
2. That which encompasses, or incloses.
3. In architecture, a ring or list at the top and bottom of a column, separating the shaft at one end from the base; at the other, from the capital. It is supposed to be in imitation of the girths or ferrils anciently used to strengthen columns.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
CINCTURE
Cinc "ture, n. Etym: [L. cinctura, fr. cingere, cinctum, to gird. ]
1. A belt, a girdle, or something worn round the body, -- as by an ecclesiastic for confining the alb.
2. That which encompasses or incloses; an inclosure. "Within the cincture of one wall. " Bacon.
3. (Arch. )
Defn: The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column.
CINCTURED
CINCTURED Cinc "tured, n.
Defn: Having or wearing a cincture or gridle.
New American Oxford Dictionary
cincture
cinc ture |ˈsiNGkCHər ˈsɪŋ (k )(t )ʃər | ▶noun 1 literary a girdle or belt. 2 Architecture 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.
Oxford Dictionary
cincture
cincture |ˈsɪŋktʃə | ▶noun 1 literary a girdle or belt. 2 Architecture 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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