ceinture
Americannoun
plural
ceinturesEtymology
Origin of ceinture
< French; Old French ceingture < Latin cinctūra; see cincture
Example Sentences
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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
Un seul homme avoit un couteau pendu à sa ceinture, qui parut fort singulier à nos gens par sa figure.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 by Kerr, Robert
La ville n'a pour habitans, que des Sarrasins et quelques chrétiens de la ceinture.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III by Hakluyt, Richard
This prohibition was vain, and the virtuous part of the sex consoled themselves by the testimony of their conscience, whence the old proverb: "Bonne r�nomm�e vaut mieux que ceinture dor�e."
From Paris as It Was and as It Is by Blagdon, Francis W.
But the tramway that passes through the Place de la Concorde goes as far as Passy, and though I love the droll little chemin de fer de ceinture I love this tramway better.
From Memoirs of My Dead Life by Moore, George (George Augustus)
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