torse

American  

[tawrs] / tɔrs /

noun

Heraldry.

1. a wreath of twisted silks of two alternating tinctures, usually a metal and a color, depicted supporting a crest or coronet, often upon a helmet.

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Etymology

Origin of torse

1565–75; < Middle French: wreath, noun use of feminine of tors twisted < Late Latin torsus (past participle), for Latin tortus, past participle of torquēre to twist

Example Sentences

Cependant on lit sur le torse le nom d'Apollonios d'Ath�nes, fils de Nestor, et la forme des lettres ne permet pas de placer cette inscription plus haut que le dernier si�cle de la R�publique.

From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.

They are a lemon and white variety, with torse or bent legs.

From Dogs and All about Them by Leighton, Robert

Ed un di lor, non questi che parlava, Si torse sotto'l peso che lo 'mpaccia, E videmi e conobbemi, e chiamava Tenendo gli occhi con fatica fisi A me che tutto chin con loro andava.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 by Various

On a helmet and torse, issuing out of a cloud argent, a sinister arm proper, holding a salt as the former.

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter

A regulus such that consecutive lines on it do not intersect, in this sense, is called a skew surface, or scroll; one on which they do is called a developable surface or torse.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various