Definitions for cinctures

cinctures cinc·ture

Spelling: [singk-cher]
IPA: /ˈsɪŋk tʃər/

Cinctures is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 461 anagrams from letters in cinctures (cceinrstu).

Definitions for cinctures

noun

  1. a belt or girdle.
  2. something that surrounds or encompasses as a girdle does; a surrounding border:
  3. (on a classical column) a fillet at either end of a shaft, especially one at the lower end. Compare orle (def 3b).
  4. the act of girding or encompassing.

verb (used with object)

  1. to gird with or as if with a cincture; encircle; encompass.

Origin of cinctures

Latin cinctūra, equivalent to cinct(us) (cinc-, variant stem of cingere to gird, cinch1 + -tus past participle suffix) + -ūra -ure

Examples for cinctures

Yea, though every knight in the realm essayed to unfasten that cincture, it would not yield, except to one alone.

These women had a cincture of cotton about their loins, but were otherwise nude.

Each of us were drawn by him, she with the cincture of Venus, and I with the crescent of Dian.

Round the waist they wore a broad zone or cincture, flounced on both edges, and embroidered and jewelled in the centre.

He threw himself back in an arm-chair, tucking his hands into his cincture.

He stood unarmed, except for the knife and war-axe swinging from crimson-beaded sheaths at his cincture.

It stands in marked contrast with the of the valiant Lycians, whose short and spare tunic required no cincture to confine it.

cincture, singk′tūr, n. a girdle or belt: a moulding round a column.

Then she applied the antiseptic dressing, and bound the lint tightly down with a cincture about the animal.

Yet there is no other cincture which will so beautifully express the grace of a lithe young figure.

Word Value for cinctures
Scrable

12

Words with friends

16

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