Sentence example with the word 'cincture'

cincture

anklet, cingulum, circumposition, coop, embracement, engird, finger ring, girth, neckband, quad, theater, zone

Definition n. a band of material around the waist that strengthens a skirt or trousers

Last update: July 29, 2015


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Except in the boreal areas the breech-clout was nearly universal with men, and the cincture or short petticoat with women.   [Please select]

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The light glinting through the grating over his head gave the rower fairly to the tribune's view--erect, and, like all his fellows, naked, except a cincture about the loins.   [Please select]

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He switched out his long, tight-rolled turban-cloth and, with swiftest hands, rolled it over and under about his loins into the intricate devices of a Saddhu's cincture.   [Please select]

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His attire consisted merely of a scanty cincture and an old buffalo robe, tattered and begrimed by use, which hung over his shoulders.   [Please select]

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As for the rider, he wore no other clothing than a light cincture at his waist, and a pair of moccasins.   [Please select]

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--1836- While men pay reverence to mighty things, They must revere thee, thou blue-cinctured isle Of England--not to-day, but this long while In the front of nations, Mother of great kings, Soldiers, and poets.   [Please select]

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