Cincture

1. n. The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column.
2. n. A belt, a girdle, or something worn round the body, — as by an ecclesiastic for confining the alb.
3. n. That which encompasses or incloses; an inclosure.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.