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語源

From Latin cinctūra. Cognate with Spanish cintura (“waist”). Doublet of ceinture.

発音

• IPA: /ˈsɪŋk.t͡ʃɚ/
• 韻: -ɪŋktʃə(ɹ)

名詞

cincture (plural cinctures)

1. An enclosure, or the act of enclosing, encircling or encompassing
2. A girdle or belt, especially as part of a vestment
   • 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 161:

     In one, dated eighteen years ago, he appeared, wearing only sandals and a cincture of vine leaves, between two classical garden statues.

3. (architecture) The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column.

派生語

動詞

cincture (third-person singular simple present cinctures, present participle cincturing, simple past and past participle cinctured)

1. To encircle, or surround.
2. (viniculture) To girdle (stunt or kill by cutting).