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Cincture vs Baldric - What's the difference?

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Cincture is a related term of baldric.


As nouns the difference between cincture and baldric

is that cincture is an enclosure, or the act of enclosing, encircling or encompassing while baldric is a belt used to hold a sword, sometimes richly ornamented, worn diagonally from shoulder to hip.

As a verb cincture

is to girdle, circle or surround.

cincture

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An enclosure, or the act of enclosing, encircling or encompassing
  • A girdle or belt, especially as part of a vestment
  • * 1988, (Alan Hollinghurst), (The Swimming Pool Library) , Penguin Books (1988), page 161
    • In one, dated eighteen years ago, he appeared, wearing only sandals and a cincture of vine leaves, between two classical garden statues.
  • (architecture) The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column.

    • See also

    * ("cincture" on Wikipedia)

    Verb

    (cinctur)
  • to girdle, circle or surround

    • baldric

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A belt used to hold a sword, sometimes richly ornamented, worn diagonally from shoulder to hip.
  • * 1833 , Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Lady of Shalott :
    • As he rode down to Camelot:/And from his blazon'd baldric slung/A mighty silver bugle hung,/And as he rode his armor rung/Beside remote Shalott.
  • * 1922 , Author, The Museum Journal, Vol. XIII , The University Museum, page 168:
    • The figure on the left, holding the severed head of the ox, has removed his sword with the baldric from which it is suspended and given it to his companion, who holds it beside his own with the baldric swinging.
  • * 1998 , Raymond E. Fiest, Krondor, the Betrayal , HarperCollins, page 16:
    • The man facing Locklear had his head covered with a red bandanna, and over his shoulder was a baldric from which a cutlass at had hung.