torche

From Old French torche, from Vulgar Latin *torca, from torqua, Classical Latin torques, from the verb torqueō (“I twist; I turn”).

• IPA^(key): /tɔʁʃ/

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torche f (plural torches)

1. torch (stick with flame at one end)

   Synonym: flambeau

• lampe torche

• torchère
• torchette
• torchon

torche

1. inflection of torcher:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition
• Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “torche”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

• “torche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• Hector

• torghe, torge, torch

From Old French torch, from Late Latin *torca.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔrtʃ(ə)/, /ˈtordʒ(ə)/

torche (plural torches)

1. A long candle
2. A torch; a portable source of light
3. (figuratively) A ray of light

• English: torch

• “torch(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-12.

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torche f (plural torches)

1. (Jersey) a whack in the face

• torce
• torke
• tourche
• tourse

From Vulgar Latin *torca, from torqua, Classical Latin torques, from the verb torqueō (“I twist; I turn”).

torche f (oblique plural torches, nominative singular torche, nominative plural torches)

1. bundle (of sticks, hay, etc.)
2. torch (stick with flame at one end)

• English: torch (borrowing)
• French: torche

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (tourse)
• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (torche, supplement)