Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Cincture

Cincture , noun

[Latin cinctura, from cingere, cinctum, to gird.]

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