cincture
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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.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2025
Prosecutors pointed out that having a cincture around the waist did not restrict movement from the waist down.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 1, 2019
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.
From Fox News ● Feb. 26, 2019
For the ceremony, the Pope wore the bloodstained cincture that Romero had been wearing when he was killed.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 22, 2018
Is it lawful for a priest to use a cincture of the kind generally used by bishops?
From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, November 1864 by
Eighteen hundred feet up the Blue Ridge, hard by Snicker's Gap, where Turner Ashby's grey cavalry thundered through to join Jackson in the Valley, stands a fine brick building faced with ten cinctured columns.
From Time Magazine Archive
The palace under all its vaulted roof Remurmur’d to the feet of sportive youths And cinctured maidens, while no few abroad, Hearing such revelry within, remark’d— 170 The Queen with many wooers, weds at last.
From The Odyssey of Homer by Cowper, William
Thus her hair Was cinctured; thus her floating drapery Was like a cloud about her, and her face Was radiant with the sunshine and the sea.
From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
There was no word in answer, only a closer folding of the arms that cinctured her.
From The Lilac Sunbonnet by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
But she wore leggins of doe-skin, deeply fringed with pale green and cinctured in at her waist, where war-axe and knife hung on her left thigh, and powder horn and bullet pouch on her right.
From The Little Red Foot by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
Doctor Douglass drew closer, and asked: "Will you let me stay also, and enjoy with you the wonderful charm of this opalescent air, this beautiful cincturing sea?"
From At the Mercy of Tiberius by Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)
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