torso
[tawr-soh]
- the trunk of the human body.
- a sculptured form representing the trunk of a nude female or male figure.
- something mutilated or incomplete.
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Origin of torso
1715–25; < Italian: stalk, trunk of statue < Latin thyrsus < Greek thýrsos wand, stem
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Contemporary Examples
She tugged on the black rope that wrapped around his thighs and torso, her leather gloves creaking with each adjustment.
From the torso, the Lift claims the ability to better sense the true culprit of bad posture: the neck and shoulders.
Every time he breathed, he felt pains all through his torso—fractured ribs.
He had skinny legs and bloated ribs fanning from his torso like an accordion strapped to his chest.
His torso was nude and his legs had been amputated by the locomotive engine.
Historical Examples
The Englishman had the torso of a prize-fighter, with a face like that of a fair-haired baby.
My Double LifeSarah Bernhardt
We find that under the ribs in the torso are all the vital organs.
In every exercise feel a sympathetic expansion of the torso.
They are all expressed by sympathy and right expansion of the torso.
He went over the patient's torso, up and down, back and forth.
Ten From InfinityPaul W. Fairman
torso
- the trunk of the human body
- a statue of a nude human trunk, esp without the head or limbs
- something regarded as incomplete or truncated
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Word Origin
C18: from Italian: stalk, stump, from Latin: thyrsus
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Word Origin and History for torso
n.
1797, from Italian torso "trunk of a statue," originally "stalk, stump," from Vulgar Latin *tursus, from Latin thyrsus "stalk, stem," from Greek thyrsos (see thyrsus).
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
torso
(tôr′sō)- The human body excluding the head and limbs; trunk.
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