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torse

[tawrs] ,
–noun Heraldry.
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:
1565–75; < MF: wreath, n. use of fem. of tors twisted < LL torsus (ptp.), for L tortus, ptp. of torquēre to twist
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