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torse

/tawrs/US // tɔrs //

火炬,托尔,火炬弹,托尔斯泰

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Heraldry.

    • : 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.

Examples

  • The girl's brother peeped through the window, and saw Leo standing naked in front of Mary, as if he posait pour le torse.

  • The peculiarity in this case consisted of a torse of three tinctures.

  • Crest: a soldan's head sable, the brow encircled by a torse or.

  • The crest, a sinister arm in armour, grasping a broken lance, on a torse of the colours.

  • An osculating plane of the curve (see 38 below) is a tangent plane of the torse all along a generating line.

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