Definitions for torses

torses torse

Spelling: [tawrs]
IPA: /tɔrs/

Torses is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 104 anagrams from letters in torses (eorsst).

Definitions for torses

noun

  1. 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.

Origin of torses

1565-75; Middle French: wreath, noun use of feminine of tors twisted Late Latin torsus (past participle), for Latin tortus, past participle of torquēre to twist

Examples for torses

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

The torse (or wreath surmounting the helm) occasionally figures as a charge, for example, in the arms of Jocelyn and Joslin.

Crest: a soldan's head sable, around the temples a torse azure, tied in a knot, the ends flowing.

The crest (a talbot's head silver) issues from a coronet or, which is placed upon a torse argent and sable.

This fillet is the commonest crest support, and the others, chapeau or coronet, are themselves sometimes set upon a torse.

"torse I will;" and he was proudly carried off by his faithful bearer.

On a helmet and torse, issuing out of a cloud argent, a sinister arm proper, holding a salt as the former.

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

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

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

Word Value for torses
Scrable

5

Words with friends

5

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