cincture

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

Monsignor Charles Portelli, who was Pell’s master of ceremonies at the time of the offending, demonstrated to jurors how the cincture was tied around the waist.

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

The cincture for the use of a priest does not differ from that for the use of a bishop.

From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, November 1864 by

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

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

Thus her hair Was cinctured; thus her floating drapery Was like a cloud about her, and her face Was radiant with the sunshine and the sea.

From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I recall thy white gown, cinctured With a linen belt, whereon Violets were wrought, and scented With strange perfumes out of Egypt.

From Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics by Bliss Carman

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

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