Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Girded with a cincture; girdled.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Having or wearing a cincture or girdle.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
cincture .
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Examples
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She is cinctured and veiled and would not know how to dress otherwise and would not be here at all if the children were healthy and the dogs middle-class.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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She is cinctured and veiled and would not know how to dress otherwise and would not be here at all if the children were healthy and the dogs middle-class.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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She is cinctured and veiled and would not know how to dress otherwise and would not be here at all if the children were healthy and the dogs middle-class.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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Now that the lines are drawn, the players named and sworn to serve with valour, girded of the loins in polished leather cinctured brass upon the brows
Seed Of Our Demise, the Ivan Donn Carswell 2007
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His long robe was of dark cloth, cinctured round the waist with his rich sword-belt, from which was suspended
How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004
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Ravenna, with barbaric pride, built her round-cinctured towers to the glory of the Exarchate.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 Various
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Saw ye not white fog-wreaths floating through the cold gray dawn over ice-laden billows, as they roll through yon rock-cinctured chasm?
The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 Various
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Her waist, tight-cinctured, was -- which is the highest praise -- not ultra-fashionable, and the undulations of her gauzy drapery disclosed, as she receded, enough of ankle and crural adjacency to furnish hints of improvement to most classical sculptors.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 Various
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On either side stood as supporters, in full human size, or larger, a salvage man proper, to use the language of heraldry, wreathed and cinctured, and holding in his hand an oak-tree eradicated, that is, torn up by the roots.
Chapter XLI 1917
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Millner, as mechanically, took one of the virginally cinctured cigars, and began to undo its wrappings.
The Blond Beast 1910
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