torsade

How to use torsade in a sentence

• torsade′, an ornament like a twisted cord; Tor′sel, a twisted scroll: a plate in a brick wall to support the end of a beam.

  Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) | Various

• Hair ornamented with broad velvet ribbons rolled in the torsade and with ends floating at each side.

  Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. | Various

• The back hair is done up in a torsade with black velvet ribbons, the two ends of which float behind.

  Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 | Various