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

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torse

Timber with spiral grain is also known as "torse wood."

From The Mechanical Properties of Wood Including a Discussion of the Factors Affecting the Mechanical Properties, and Methods of Timber Testing by Samuel J. Record

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

From Fort Amity by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

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

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

From Dogs and All about Them by Robert Leighton

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 Walter Thornbury

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