cincture

The institution has a lot of baggage, as any organization with nearly two millennia and a few crusades under its cincture is bound to have.

Supplies, too, were running low, ranging from antibiotics and painkillers to bandages, cinctures and gloves, Cherry added.

Monsignor Charles Portelli, who was Pell’s master of ceremonies at the time of the offending, demonstrated to jurors how the cincture was tied around the waist.

Over his regular clothes, Pell would wear a full-length white robe called an alb that was tied around his waist with a rope-like cincture.

For the ceremony, the Pope wore the bloodstained cincture that Romero had been wearing when he was killed.