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Definition of: cincture
(singk′chər) noun
1. Something bound about the waist; a belt or girdle.
2. Any covering about the loins: The savages wore a cincture of leaves.
3. Anything that encircles or encloses; also, the act of cincturing.
—v.t. ·tured, ·tur·ing To surround with or as with a cincture; gird. [<L cinctura <cingere gird]
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