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Webster 1913 Edition
Cincture
Cinc′ture
,Noun.
[L.
cinctura
, fr. cingere
, cinctum
, to gird.] 1.
A belt, a girdle, or something worn round the body, – as by an ecclesiastic for confining the alb.
2.
That which encompasses or incloses; an inclosure.
“Within the cincture of one wall.” Bacon.
3.
(Arch.)
The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column.
Webster 1828 Edition
Cincture
CINCTURE
, n.1.
A belt, a girdle, or something worn round the body.2.
That which encompasses, or incloses.3.
In architecture, a ring or list at the top and bottom of a column, separating the shaft at one end from the base; at the other, from the capital. It is supposed to be in imitation of the girths or ferrils anciently used to strengthen columns.