ceinture

American  

[san-toor, -tyoor, san-cher, san-tyr] / sænˈtʊər, -ˈtjʊər, ˈsæn tʃər, sɛ̃ˈtür /

noun

• ceintures
  plural

1. cincture.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• ceintures
  plural

Etymology

Origin of ceinture

< French; Old French ceingture < Latin cinctūra; see cincture

Example Sentences

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ceinture ceintures

Ushers were surprisingly courteous, refused in the main the few tips offered, moved with a vicarious sanctity, hoped thereby for condonation for sins committed, planned or guarded against by a wilful ceinture de chastité.

From Time Magazine Archive

Around the waist a golden ceinture held up a colored velvet skirt, with an enormous train, but no body.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 by Various

The ceinture was also composed of brilliants, emeralds and sapphires. 

From Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign by John Ashton

These refugees are being shunted on to the chemin de fer de la ceinture and proceed around the city to other stations, from which they are transported towards the south.

From Paris War Days Diary of an American by Charles Inman Barnard

The ceinture or girdle was of pure gold, so pure as to be quite elastic, embellished with thirty-nine rose-colored diamonds.

From Josephine Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

None of them are strange, With socks of lace And beaded ceintures.

From Time Magazine Archive