[singk-cher] 
noun, verb, -tured, -tur⋅ing.| 1. | a belt or girdle. |
| 2. | something that surrounds or encompasses as a girdle does; a surrounding border: The midnight sky had a cincture of stars. |
| 3. | (on a classical column) a fillet at either end of a shaft, esp. one at the lower end. Compare orle (def. 3b). |
| 4. | the act of girding or encompassing. |
| 5. | to gird with or as if with a cincture; encircle; encompass. |
| cinc·ture (sĭngk'chər) n.
To gird; encompass. [Latin cīnctūra, from cīnctus, past participle of cingere, to gird; see kenk- in Indo-European roots.] |
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