† ceinten.
Obsolete.
A girdle; the woven portion of a girdle.
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c1386 G. Chaucer Prol. 329 Girt with a ceint of silk with barres smale.
c1450 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (BL Add. 36983) p. 1649 Abowte hure myddel a seynt sche souȝt.
1483 ( tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage of Soul (Caxton) (1859) v. v. 76 These forsaide Aungels ledden thre spirites whiche were..gyrd with ceyntes of gold.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 268/2 Seynt of a gyrdell, tissu.
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