† cinglingn.
Obsolete. rare.
Girdling, tight-lacing.
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garteringa1529
cingling1603
strait-lacing1636
buttoninga1645
succincture1894
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xl. 133 To become slender in the waste..what cingling will they [women] not indure.
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