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
  • Discount stores such as Dollar General tend to gain during periods of economic strain as shoppers tighten their belts.
    Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 3 June 2025
  • Clip it to your bag, belt, or bike, and get ready to jam out – for less.
    Cierra Cowan, PC Magazine, 2 June 2025
Noun
  • In addition to educational scholarships, the winners will receive trophies, gift baskets, flowers, a sash and crown.
    Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 May 2025
  • The figure also sports a white bow tie, an Order of the Garter sash and star and army medals.
    Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 21 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
  • On Friday, four years later, the school is cutting the ribbon on its new courtroom.
    Garrett Shanley, Miami Herald, 30 May 2025
  • Public officials and other guests turned to their neighbors and connected the ends of their ribbon scraps to create a long, interconnected artwork that will remain in the museum’s collection.
    Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 29 May 2025

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“Cincture.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cincture. Accessed 8 Jun. 2025.

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