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
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
Her face was a perfect oval, framed in a wealth of golden hair, which, save for a jeweled cincture, fell unrestrained about her shoulders in a silken flood.
From Palos of the Dog Star Pack by J. U. Giesy
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
From a canvas of "High Art" sort they shone, Their owner was cinctured with classic zone, She was spare of flesh, she was big in bone, Oh, what a surprise!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 3, 1891 by Various
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
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
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
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