encincturement

...city itself, though not properly a fortress, was sufficiently strong, in its encincturement of 'wall and towers and river, to be able to make a stubborn resistance.

...abounds in mild and soft pictures of rural beauty ; it derives picturesqueness from its encincturement with intricate bands of sea, overhung by the lofty and hard...

...wood, its beautiful mansion, its semi-encincturement, with joyous natural lakes, and its extent and vruiety of undulating surface, it ranks high among the...