torquate

American

[tawr-kwit, -kweyt] / ˈtɔr kwɪt, -kweɪt /

adjective

Zoology.

ringed about the neck, as with feathers or a color; collared.

Etymology

Origin of torquate

1655–65; < Latin torquātus adorned with a necklace, equivalent to torqu ( ēs ) twisted neck-chain + -ātus -ate ¹

Example Sentences

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More than race to the Roman; more than power to the statesman; yet helpless beside the grave,—"Non, Torquate, genus, non te facundia, non te, Restitvet pietas."

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