Cincture

Webster's Dictionary

(1): (n.) That which encompasses or incloses; an inclosure.

(2): (n.) The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column.

(3): (n.) A belt, a girdle, or something worn round the body, - as by an ecclesiastic for confining the alb.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

is (1) a band or girdle; (2) the flat band, usually about three yards long and four inches broad, used to confine the clerical cassock round the waist. It is made of silk, serge, or stuff, and is commonly fringed at the ends with silk fringe. (See Cingulum).