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cestus
1[ ses-tuhs ]
noun
- a girdle or belt, especially as worn by women of ancient Greece.
- Classical Mythology. the girdle of Venus, decorated with every object that could arouse amorous desire.
cestus
2[ ses-tuhs ]
noun
- a hand covering made of leather strips and often covered with metal studs, worn by boxers.
cestus
1/ ˈsɛstəs; ˈsɛstɒs /
noun
- classical myth the girdle of Aphrodite (Venus) decorated to cause amorousness
cestus
2/ ˈsɛstəs /
noun
- (in classical Roman boxing) a pugilist's gauntlet of bull's hide loaded or studded with metal
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Example Sentences
She said, and loosed from her bosom the embroidered, variegated cestus; 468 where all allurements were enclosed.
Jupiter might as soon keep awake, when Juno came in best bib and tucker, and with the cestus of Venus, to get him to sleep.
Venus, goddess of beauty, is represented either entirely naked, or with some scanty drapery called a “cestus.”
Controversy with boxing is the cestus, that is, the lead-loaded glove, like the pugilists in the Æneid.
He cared no more either for the prowess of two combatants who, wearing a cestus on the left arm, fought with sticks.
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