Definitions for cincture

cincture cinc·ture

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

Cincture is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 217 anagrams from letters in cincture (cceinrtu).

Definitions for cincture

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 cincture

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

Examples for cincture

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Word Value for cincture
Scrable

12

Words with friends

16

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