torse

Via obsolete French torse (a wreath) from Latin torquēre (to twist).

torse (plural torses)

1. (heraldry) A twist of cloth or wreath underneath and forming part of a crest; an orle, a wreath. It is customarily shown with six twists, the first tincture being the tincture of the field, the second the tincture of the metal, and so on.

• orle
• wreath

• torsion

• A complete guide to heraldry, A. C. Fox-Davis.

torse (plural torses)

1. Obsolete form of torso.

• Resto, estro-, resto, roset, rotes, sorte, store, tores

• IPA^(key): /tɔʁs/

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Borrowed from Italian torso, from Latin thyrsus. Doublet of thyrse.

torse m (plural torses)

1. torso

   Son torse est très poilu.

   His torso is very hairy.

• bomber le torse
• torse nu

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

torse

1. feminine singular of tors

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

• resto, rotes, sorte, store, tores

torse

1. third-person singular past historic of torcere

• estro, resto, restò, roste, serto, sorte, terso