cincture

From Latin cinctūra. Cognate with Spanish cintura (“waist”). Doublet of ceinture.

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

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, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, 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 encircle, or surround.
2. (viniculture) To girdle (stunt or kill by cutting).

cīnctūre

1. vocative masculine singular of cīnctūrus