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Cincture

noun
1.
A band of material around the waist that strengthens a skirt or trousers.  Synonyms: girdle, sash, waistband, waistcloth.





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... throat and part of her bosom, in all the dawning beauties of their youthful formation, to the gaze of the licentious Roman. One hand half supported her head, and was almost entirely hidden in the locks of her long black hair, which had escaped from the white cincture intended to confine it, and now streamed over the pillow in dazzling contrast to the light bed-furniture around it. The other hand held tightly clasped to her bosom the precious fragment of her broken lute. The deep repose expressed in her position had not thoroughly communicated ...
— Antonina • Wilkie Collins
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