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noun
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, especially one at the lower end. Compare orle (def. 3b).
4.
the act of girding or encompassing.
verb (used with object)
5.
to gird with or as if with a cincture; encircle; encompass.
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| to steal or take dishonestly (money, esp. public funds, or property entrusted to one's care); embezzle. |
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cincture
1580s, from L. cinctura "girdle," from cinctus, pp. of cingere "to gird," The verb is recorded from 1757.
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