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