cincture

From Latin cinctura. Cognate with Spanish cintura (“waist”).

• IPA^(key): /sɪŋk.ʃə/
• Rhymes: -ɪŋktʃə

cincture (plural cinctures)

1. An enclosure, or the act of enclosing, encircling or encompassing
2. A girdle or belt, especially as part of a vestment
   • 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming Pool Library, Penguin Books (1988), page 161

     In one, dated eighteen years ago, he appeared, wearing only sandals and a cincture of vine leaves, between two classical garden statues.

3. (architecture) The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column.

cincture (third-person singular simple present cinctures, present participle cincturing, simple past and past participle cinctured)

1. to girdle, circle, or surround

cinctūre

1. vocative masculine singular of cinctūrus