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torchier - 4 dictionary results

torch⋅y

[tawr-chee]
–adjective, torch⋅i⋅er, torch⋅i⋅est.
of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a torch song or a torch singer.

Origin:
1620–30, in sense “full of torches”; 1940–45 for this sense; torch 1 + -y 1

tor⋅chiere

[tawr-cheer]
–noun
a floor lamp for indirect lighting, having its source of light within a reflecting bowl that directs the light upward.
Also, torchère, tor⋅chier.


Origin:
var. of torchère
tor·chère   (tôr-shâr')   
n.  A usually tall floor lamp with a bowl-shaped part that diffuses the light or directs it upward.

[French, from torche, torch; see torch.]
torch·y   (tôr'chē)   
adj.   torch·i·er, torch·i·est
Of, relating to, or typical of a torch song or torch singer.
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