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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cincture
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
  • These products are different from maternity belts, which look more like a girdle and are meant to be worn during pregnancy to take some weight off your bump.
    Kathleen Felton, SELF, 6 May 2025
  • 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
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
  • Immediately following the ribbon cutting, Big Creek Fire Department will serve free hot dogs, and Western Arkansas Pickleball Advocates will provide free demonstrations and tutorials on how to play the game.
    River Valley Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 9 May 2025

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“Cincture.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cincture. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.

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