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CINCTURED
Verb
cinctured
simple past tense and past participle of cincture
Adjective
cinctured (not comparable)
Having a cincture.
Source: Wiktionary
Cinc"tured, n.
Definition: Having or wearing a cincture or gridle.
CINCTURE
Cinc"ture, n. Etym: [L. cinctura, fr. cingere, cinctum, to gird.]
1. A belt, a girdle, or something worn round the body, -- as by an ecclesiastic for confining the alb.
2. That which encompasses or incloses; an inclosure. "Within the cincture of one wall." Bacon.
3. (Arch.)
Definition: The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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