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Ceinture

Ceinture \Cein`ture"\, n. [F.] A cincture, girdle, or belt; -- chiefly used in English as a dressmaking term.

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ceinture

n. (cx dressmaking English) belt; girdle

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Ceinture

The French term ceinture means belt, waist, or ring, and may refer to a ringroad or a rail route round a city.

Petite ceinture may refer to:

  • Chemin de fer de Petite Ceinture around Paris
  • The petite ceinture or small ring of Brussels, a series of roadways surrounding the city centre

Grande ceinture may refer to:

  • Grande Ceinture line around Paris
  • Grande ceinture in Brussels

Usage examples of "ceinture".

King and she renounce the Gifts of Le Joyeux Avenement, and La Ceinture de la Reine.

King and the renounce the Gifts of Le Joyeux Avenement and La Ceinture de la Reine.

They had reached Paris, and the slow journey round the ceinture, with its interminable stops and waits, was very wearisome.

When, however, the train had completed its slow journey round the ceinture and reached the Gare de Lyon, Poirot became suddenly galvanized into activity.

It was careless of you to drop it when you boarded the train on the ceinture at Paris.

A certain priest, named Ceinture, convicted of conspiracy against the present government, accused of base actions to which we will not even allude, suspected besides of being a former Jesuit, metamorphosed into a simple priest, suspended by a bishop for causes that are said to be unmentionable and summoned to Paris to give an explanation of his conduct, has found an ardent defender in the man named Marin, a councillor of state, who was not afraid to give this frocked malefactor the warmest letters of recommendation to all the republican officials, his colleagues.

I have recently been made a victim of the intrigues and lies of a certain Abbe Ceinture, who imposed on my kind-heartedness.

Une robe noire, une ceinture de cuir noir, une coiffe blanche a fond plisse?

Vitalis, amenant le moine devant Novelli, et le retenant par la ceinture.

A certain priest, named Ceinture, convicted of conspiracy against the present government, accused of base actions to which we will not even allude, suspected besides of being a former Jesuit, metamorphosed into a simple priest, suspended by a bishop for causes that are said to be unmentionable and summoned to Paris to give an explanation of his conduct, has found an ardent defender in the man named Marin, a councillor of state, who was not afraid to give this frocked malefactor the warmest letters of recommendation to all the republican officials, his colleagues.

I have recently been made a victim of the intrigues and lies of a certain Abbe Ceinture, who imposed on my kind-heartedness.