tourbillion
Britishnoun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of tourbillion
C15: from French tourbillon, ultimately from Latin turbō something that spins, from turbāre to confuse
Example Sentences
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Fugacious, tourbillion, moiety, repugn, sacrosanct, censure, morass, El Dorado, and turpitude.
From Literature
At the moment, he’s focused on a custom-made box destined to encase a client’s prized tourbillion watch.
Ordinarily, this is the sort of car I love to hate—a grand complication tourbillion of vanity, bought and sold by kings and kleptocrats as a way to keep score of their crimes.
GMT12:19 So then, what chance the hosts making a whirlwind start at the Stade Tourbillion?
From The Guardian
So then, what chance the hosts making a whirlwind start at the Stade Tourbillion?
From The Guardian
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