Cincture vs Surcingle - What's the difference?
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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
(architecture) The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column.
to girdle, circle or surround
a long unpadded strap to pass over and keep in place a blanket, pack or saddle on an animal
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a piece of tack wrapped around the belly of a horse, to use when longeing, also know as lungeing; (roller in UK and Australasia)
a girdle to fasten a garment, especially a cassock
Cincture is a related term of surcingle.
As nouns the difference between cincture and surcingle
is that cincture is an enclosure, or the act of enclosing, encircling or encompassing while surcingle is a long unpadded strap to pass over and keep in place a blanket, pack or saddle on an animal.As a verb cincture
is to girdle, circle or surround.cincture
English
Noun
(en noun)- In one, dated eighteen years ago, he appeared, wearing only sandals and a cincture of vine leaves, between two classical garden statues.