On a Girdle
by Edmund Waller

That which her slender waist confined
Shall now my joyful temples bind;
No monarch but would give his crown
His arms might do what this has done.

It was my Heaven's extremest sphere,
The pale which held that lovely deer:
My joy, my grief, my hope, my love
Did all within this circle move.

A narrow compass! and yet there
Dwelt all that's good, and all that's fair:
Give me but what this ribbon bound,
Take all the rest the Sun goes round.

And we thought it was just a creative misspelling:

http://www.cingular.com/

Yep, that's what I always thought, Faldage...just some corporate cutsieness. Guess not.

Guess not

I dunno. If you take into account the notion of choking off that would seem to me to be inherent in cingularity…

cingulum - The Latin word for ‘girdle, belt’ [f. root of cingere to gird], occasionally used as a technical term for a. The girdle of a priest's alb. b. A surgical cincture or girdle; also the part of the body round which a girdle is worn, the waist. c. Anat. A band of dental substance surrounding the base of the crown of the tooth in some animals. d. Zool. The transverse series of bony bands in the armour of the armadillo...

Then there is horse headgear: surcingle
surcingle
ME surcengle < MFr < OFr sur3, SUR31 + L cingulum, a belt: see CINGULUM6
1 a strap passed around a horse‘s body to bind on a saddle, blanket, pack, etc.
2 [Historical] the belt of a cassock

Cassock - There was a young monk from Dundee
Who lifted his cassock to pee
Said he: Pax vobiscum
Why won't the piss come
Can it be I have the C L A P?