cincture
Example Sentences
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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
Inside the cincture so made, and held there insecurely by one sharp corner, a folded paper had caught, which seemed foreign to the remaining contents.
From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar
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