† ceinte Obs.
Also 4 seynt, 5 ceynte; also saint, sain, q.v.
[a. OF. ceint, ceinct:—L. cinctus in same sense f. cingĕre to gird.]
A girdle; the woven portion of a girdle.
| c 1340 Cursor M. 793 (Add. MS.) Abowte hure myddel a seynt sche souȝt. c 1386 Chaucer Prol. 329 Girt with a ceint of silk with barres smale. 1413 Lydg. Pilgr. Sowle v. v. (1859) 76 These Aungels ledden thre spirites whiche were..gyrd with ceyntes of gold. 1530 Palsgr. 268/2 Seynt of a gyrdell, tissu. |