cincture

plural cinctures

1. An enclosure, or the act of enclosing, encircling or encompassing
2. A girdle or belt, especially as part of a vestment

   In one, dated eighteen years ago, he appeared, wearing only sandals and a cincture of vine leaves, between two classical garden statues.

   1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 161

3. architectureThe fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column.

present singular third person cinctures · participle present cincturing · participle past cinctured · past cinctured

1. To encircle, or surround.
2. To girdle (stunt or kill by cutting).