Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having or wearing a torque.
- In zoology, same as torquate.
Wiktionary
- adj. wearing a torque
- adj. shaped like a torque, twisted, convoluted
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having or wearing a torque, or neck chain.
Etymologies
- Latin torquatus. (Wiktionary)
Examples
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘torquated’.
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phrontistery-t
from phrontistery.info
tabacosis, tabanid, tabaret, tabati?re, tabby, tabefaction, tabellary, tabellion, tabernacle, tabernacular, tabescent, tabific and 930 more...
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Frequented by Nabokov
Wonderful words Nabokov whips out repeatedly in his novels and other works
torquated, vermiculated, crepuscular, luminous, ultramarine, waxwing, cinnabar, limpid, hyaline, canicule, brachiate
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Nabokov start
I came here to look up what "iridule" meant and intend to lurk until I have a grip on how this plays. However, I have started this list to see how it operates, and since I am reading "Pale Fire", ...
iridule, vermiculated, torquated, torque, litotes, sectile, scrubbled
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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PALE FIRE
words found in pale fire
torquated, waxwing, grouse, stillicide, iridule, cloutish, abject
Tweets
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sionnach Torquated beauty, sublimated grouse,
Finding your China right behind my house.
"Pale Fire"; lines 25-26. Nov 28, 2008