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
Furthermore, his dalmatic and his cincture were considered powerful to assuage the sufferings of pregnant women.
From Donahoe's Magazine, Volume XV, No. 3 Volume XV (Jan 1886-Jul 1886) by Various
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
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
The clinging tresses were cinctured at the waist with a sort of cord of twisted orange-colored material, and some of the younger women wore bands of the same material around their brows.
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 by Harry Bates
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
There was no word in answer, only a closer folding of the arms that cinctured her.
From The Lilac Sunbonnet by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
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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