cestcesten.
= cestus n.1
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > equipment or accessories of wedding > [noun] > wedding garment(s) > girdle
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1577 M. Hanmer tr. Bp. Eusebius in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. vi. xxx. 111 Of Cestes or wedding girdels.
1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 67 And thy Brest Gird'st with a rich and odoriferous Cest.
1675 C. Cotton Poet. Wks. (1765) 203 Mercury..Whips me away her am'rous cest.
1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Cest, a Marriage Girdle.
1747 W. Collins Odes 15 To whom, prepar'd and bath'd in Heav'n, The Cest of amplest Pow'r is giv'n.
1842 Fraser's Mag. 26 80 The Graces' charm-conferring cest Seems bound around her flower-tipp'd breast.
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