torrid

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"I expect it to be what we euphemistically refer to as a torrid game."

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  1. adjective Parched with the heat of the sun; intensely hot.
  2. adjective Scorching; burning: the torrid noonday sun.
  3. adjective Passionate; ardent: a torrid love scene.

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  • The central region, lying beneath the track of the sun, was termed the torrid zone; the two regions between the tropics and the polar circles were termed the temperate zones, and the remaining parts, between the porlar circles and the poles, the frigid zones. —  The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Vol. II)
  • The Portuguese, it is true, had penetrated within the tropics; but, though the whole of the space between the tropic of Cancer and that of Capricorn, in common parlance, was termed the torrid zone, the uninhabitable and impassable part, strictly speaking, according to the doctrine of the ancients, only extended a limited number of degrees on each side of the equator; forming about a third, or, at most, the half of the zone. —  The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Vol. II)
  • Love is the master Too utterly torrid, a sweet, spicy South Of compositae, fairest the Aster Stars shone on our kisses—the moon blushed warm Ursa major or minor, Pollux and Castor How long the homeward! —  Memories and Anecdotes
  • "I expect it to be what we euphemistically refer to as a torrid game." —  Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • In the low coast regions of this torrid area, and also in the low forest regions watered by the great flat rivers of the interior, the climate is for the most part unendurable to white men. —  Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.)
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Latin torridus, from torrēre, to parch; see ters- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from French torride =Provencal torrid =Spanish tórrido =Portuguese Italian torrido, from Latin torridus, dry with heat, parched, torrid, from torrere, dry by heat, parch: see torrent.
 

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