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

"L'attente de P�n�lope nous est pr�sente, et, pour ainsi dire, dure encore pour nous dans cette expressive P�n�lope, dont le torse nous a montr� un sp�cimen de l'art grec sous la forme la plus ancienne."

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

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

Barboux confined himself to swearing and jeering at le Chameau's naked back—diable de torse, as he proclaimed it.

From Fort Amity by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

Les hommes en particulier devaient avoir une poitrine large et bomb�e, un torse puissant, des membres muscl�s.

From Six Centuries of Painting by Davies, Randall

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