[med.L.; see SUB- 3.] A broad belt or girdle worn beneath another.
1824. Meyrick, Ant. Armour, Gloss., Subcingulum, when one belt was worn below another it was thus called.
1849. Rock, Ch. Fathers, I. v. 492. Besides the girdle, our Anglo-Saxon bishops were girt with the sub-cingulum or broad belt.
