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
  • Pixar, as a brand, has several franchises under its belt.
    Braedon Montgomery, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
  • In the new study, researchers sampled a different section of rock from the belt and estimated its age using the previous two dating techniques — measuring how one radioactive element decays into another over time.
    Adithi Ramakrishnan, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • Wearing green sashes, the two men led the Green Movement, when millions protested for some six months.
    Robin Wright, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
  • The contestants cover a broad range of demographics — including age, race and income — but share a common goal of making it to the finals in Las Vegas and capturing the ultimate sash for women who have aged out of the Miss America pursuit.
    Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 7 June 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
  • The ribbon cutting and kids making their way to the new playground signaled a moment of closure and a fresh start for the community.
    Paris Goodman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 June 2025
  • And so the Panthers put a ribbon on another masterclass postseason after being battle-tested through the regular season.
    Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 18 June 2025

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“Cincture.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cincture. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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