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
Her robe was a pale green silk, bound at the waist with a heavy cincture of gold.
From The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar by William Richard Bradshaw
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
Is it a dream or ghost Of a dream that comes to me, Here in the twilight on the coast, Blue cinctured by the sea?
From The Little Book of Modern Verse; a selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets by Jessie Belle Rittenhouse
Her people are arrayed in purple vesture, and wear cloaks of gold; their loins are cinctured with girdles rich with precious stones.
From The Story of Paris by Katherine Kimball
Nor warrior yet, nor cinctured matron knew Of all in Ilium aught of their approach, Cassandra sole except.
From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by William Cowper
Presently a fantastic form danced up from behind one of the huts, daubed with colored clays, figged out with a thousand tawdry charms, and cinctured round the middle by a girdle of half-picked bones.
From A Master of Fortune Being Further Adventures of Captain Kettle by Stanley L. Wood
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 Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans
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