as in belt
a strip of flexible material (as leather) worn around the waist wrapped a cincture around the dress as a stylish accessory

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Recent Examples of cincture Vestments: amice, alb, cincture, and simple white miter. Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Apr. 2025 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. J.p. Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2025 Other designers have followed suit, as well: For Spring 2018 Men’s, Prada used the hyper-functional cincture for a double-belt styling moment. Alexandra Gurvitch, Vogue, 21 Aug. 2017
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Noun
  • China is set to launch its second Tianwen deep space exploration mission late May, targeting both a near-Earth asteroid and a main belt comet, Space News reports.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 23 May 2025
  • Archaeologists have previously found a few artifacts decorated with beetle wings, such as horse harnesses and belts, but the 1,400-year-old crown is a first-of-its-kind find.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 22 May 2025
Noun
  • Lorde went on to point out that the dress’s top half was a different take on the cummerbund, the pleated sash that often comes with men’s tuxedos.
    Mathew Rodriguez, Them., 15 May 2025
  • Hudson was still wearing her Hancock sash and violet evening gown upon departure.
    Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 12 May 2025
Noun
  • The old oil town, with its beige parking garages that form a girdle around nondescript towers in gray and black — Bank of Oklahoma, Cherokee Federal — was exactly the kind of American city that filled me with dread.
    Andrew Moore, New York Times, 15 May 2025
  • According to the Observatory of Economic Complexity, Vietnam trails only China in global exports of women's undergarments, a category that includes bras, corsets, girdles and shapewear.
    Lee Habeeb, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • But Jia Yue Technology, a Chinese company that makes Christmas ribbons, stockings, wreaths and gift bags, has already made the leap to Vietnam.
    Alexandra Stevenson, New York Times, 10 May 2025
  • Garnish with a thin cucumber ribbon, threaded onto a skewer. 7.
    Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 May 2025

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“Cincture.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cincture. Accessed 1 Jun. 2025.

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