Cincture

Chamber's Twientieth Century Dictionary · 1908 · p. 21

singk′tūr, n. a girdle or belt: a moulding round a column.— v.t. to gird, encompa .— adjs. Cinct , surrounded; Cinc′tured , having a cincture. [L. cinctura — cingĕre , cinctum , to gird.]