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cest, ceste
[a. F. ceste, ad. L. cestus.]
= cestus1.
1577Hanmer Anc. Eccl. Hist. (1619) 110 Of Cestes or Wedding Girdles. 1606Sylvester Du Bartas, Magnif. 949 And thy brest Gird'st with a rich and odoriferous cest. 1675Cotton Poet. Wks. (1765) 203 Mercury..Whips me away her am'rous cest. 1678Phillips, Cest, a Marriage Girdle. 1746Collins Ode Poet. Character, To whom prepar'd and bath'd in heaven, The cest of amplest power is given. 1842Fraser's Mag. XXVI. 80 The Graces' charm-conferring cest Seems bound around her flower-tipp'd breast. |