Word Meanings - CEINTURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A cincture, girdle, or belt; -- chiefly used in English as a dressmaking term.

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• ENGLISHWOMAN
  Fem. of Englishman. Shak.
• CINCTURE
  The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column. (more info) 1. A belt, a girdle, or something worn round the body, -- as by an ecclesiastic for confining the alb. 2. That which encompasses or incloses;
• GIRDLESTEAD
  1. That part of the body where the girdle is worn. Sheathed, beneath his girdlestead. Chapman. 2. The lap. There fell a flower into her girdlestead. Swinburne.
• GIRDLER
  An American longicorn beetle which lays its eggs in the twigs of the hickory, and then girdles each branch by gnawing a groove around it, thus killing it to provide suitable food for the larvæ. (more info) 1. One who girdles. 2. A
• DRESSMAKING
  The art, process, or occupation, of making dresses.
• ENGLISHRY
  1. The state or privilege of being an Englishman. Cowell. 2. A body of English or people of English descent; -- commonly applied to English people in Ireland. A general massacre of the Englishry. Macaulay.
• GIRDLE
  A griddle.
• ENGLISHABLE
  Capable of being translated into, or expressed in, English.
• ENGLISHMAN
  A native or a naturalized inhabitant of England.
• ENGLISHISM
  1. A quality or characteristic peculiar to the English. M. Arnold. 2. A form of expression peculiar to the English language as spoken in England; an Anglicism.
• CINCTURED
  Having or wearing a cincture or gridle.
• ENGLISH
  Of or pertaining to England, or to its inhabitants, or to the present so-called Anglo-Saxon race. English bond (more info) tribe of Germans from the southeast of Sleswick, in Denmark, who
• CHIEFLY
  1. In the first place; principally; preëminently; above; especially. Search through this garden; leave unsearched no nook; But chiefly where those two fair creatures lodge. Milton. 2. For the most part; mostly. Those parts of the kingdom where
• DRESSMAKER
  A maker of gowns, or similar garments; a mantuamaker.
• SEA GIRDLES
  A kind of kelp with palmately cleft fronds; -- called also sea wand, seaware, and tangle.
• ENCINCTURE
  A cincture. The vast encincture of that gloomy sea. Wordsworth.
• ENGIRDLE
  To surround as with a girdle; to girdle.
• INDO-ENGLISH
  Of or relating to the English who are born or reside in India; Anglo-Indian.
• BOROUGH-ENGLISH
  A custom, as in some ancient boroughs, by which lands and tenements descend to the youngest son, instead of the eldest; or, if the owner have no issue, to the youngest brother. Blackstone.
• BEGIRDLE
  To surround as with a girdle.