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
Around her forehead was bound a cincture of beads, woven into singular devices, which confined a sort of turban of green silk.
From Captain Kyd (Vol 1 of 2) or, The Wizard of the Sea by Ingraham, Jonathon Holt
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 Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
Presently a fantastic form danced up from behind one of the huts, daubed with colored clays, figged out with a thousand tawdry charms, and cinctured round the middle by a girdle of half-picked bones.
From A Master of Fortune Being Further Adventures of Captain Kettle by Wood, Stanley L.
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 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
But she wore leggins of doe-skin, deeply fringed with pale green and cinctured in at her waist, where war-axe and knife hung on her left thigh, and powder horn and bullet pouch on her right.
From The Little Red Foot by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
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 Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)
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