Noun : The midnight sky had a cincture of stars. From Dictionary.com.
Some kind of cincture, we may further note, is included in almost every form of religious or ecclesiastical costume. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
It was very tight; it was a cincture, a constraint. From Wordnik.com. [The Miko]
Binds not a cincture smooth her bosom's orbed emotion. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems and Fragments of Catullus] Reference
It is secured with a rope, or cincture, around the waist. From Wordnik.com. [An Instructed Eucharist] Reference
He draws it about his waist with the cincture, or white cord. From Wordnik.com. [Baltimore Catechism No. 4 (of 4) An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine] Reference
Binds not a cincture smooth her bosom's orbed emotion. From Wordnik.com. [Poems and Fragments] Reference
And her cincture, dagger-fastened, shaped the garment to her zone. From Wordnik.com. [Stories in Verse] Reference
A single black braided cord at waist level provided the only cincture. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow Sorceress]
They might even restore the cincture and chasuble when concelebrating!. From Wordnik.com. [13 new Dominican novices in Ireland] Reference
Double your cincture, loop the end through and tie a simple knot on one side. From Wordnik.com. [Vanity, Vanity, All Is Vanity Saith the Preacher] Reference
Their strife unvaried looks similar, usually with a wider cincture as a diagonal line. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-11-01] Reference
My cassock cincture is way too tight, but I really ought to lose weight instead of getting a bigger wardrobe. From Wordnik.com. [trinityboy Diary Entry] Reference
Yea, though every knight in the realm essayed to unfasten that cincture, it would not yield, except to one alone. From Wordnik.com. [French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France] Reference
He, girding himself in a Gabine cincture, and fully armed, mounted his horse, and rushed into the midst of the enemy. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08] Reference
One of the three ranges of Alps - the most southerly, headed by Mount Shirane - passed like a cincture about Honshu's waist. From Wordnik.com. [The Ninja]
Her ivory skirt a riot of blossoms, her cincture the snow's enemy, she bent to my ear and whispered, "Tesoro, guide me to dance.". From Wordnik.com. [Four] Reference
The sleeveless, low-necked silk tunic, girdled at the waist with a cloth-of-gold cincture, was a duplicate of the queen's night-garment. From Wordnik.com. [The Bloody Crown of Conan]
There was a something beyond, faint, vague, impalpable as yet, which the rolling mists begirt as sometimes they cincture an Alpine needle. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
The dress of these elegant females was composed, as that of the Turkish women still is, of a long tunic of linen confined by a cincture, of a. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Moors of Spain] Reference
God's Angels could not pierce that cincture dread. From Wordnik.com. [The Legends of Saint Patrick] Reference
It circled him with an even cincture about two inches wide. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon Pool] Reference
Again, from cincture down to knee, long bolts of iron he bore. From Wordnik.com. [Mediaeval Tales] Reference
He looked down at his breast, saw the glowing cincture, and smiled. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon Pool] Reference
Emptor, which the sea, like a cincture of snow, not only encircled but appeared to bind. From Wordnik.com. [The Purgatory of St. Patrick] Reference
Down below there, a horseman, clad in white, is framed with his white horse in the moulded cincture of a door. From Wordnik.com. [Saint Augustin] Reference
A swollen cincture, like a red snake, had risen all round his waist, and from one spot in it the blood was oozing. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Gibbie] Reference
This cincture enclosed a whole bundle of weapons; no man bore less than one brace of immensely long pistols, and a yataghan. From Wordnik.com. [Eothen, or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East] Reference
Durtal looked at the Trappist as he walked majestic and quiet, his head buried in his hood, his hands passed under his cincture. From Wordnik.com. [En Route] Reference
Generally speaking, an inn argues, of course, a close cincture of neighbors -- as the original motive for opening such an establishment. From Wordnik.com. [Note Book of an English Opium-Eater] Reference
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