Definition of Torcs

1. Noun. (plural of torc) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Torcs

1. torc [n] - See also: torc

Lexicographical Neighbors of Torcs

torchings
torchless
torchlight
torchlights
torchlike
torchman
torchmen
torchon
torchons
torchwood
torchwood family
torchwoods
torchwort
torchy
torcs (current term)
torcular
torcular herophili
torcularious
torculars
tordion
tordions
tore
tore away
tore supra
tore up
toreador
toreador pant
toreadors
toreave

Literary usage of Torcs

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Popular Handbook to the Greek and Roman Antiquities in the British Museum by Edward Tyas Cook (1903)
"Accordingly the torcs ended in bulbous knobs. ... Sometimes the torcs are fastened with a ring, as in one from Boyton, Suffolk (Case L) ; this was found by ..."

2. A Guide to the Antiquities of the Early Iron Age of Central and Western by Charles Hercules Read (1905)
"This cemetery is remarkable for the fine torcs recovered from certain graves. ... Iron spear-heads and knives, and bronze torcs and ornamented bracelets, ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... a satire of the dead on the living; to the latter, the "Picca- torcs", a metrical piece decidedly lengthy but rather unpoetic, while the former has many ..."

4. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith (1891)
"... as the Lex Furia testamentaria and the Lex Marcia adversus fenera- torcs. But in these cases the defendant might resist the manus injectio (manum sibi ..."

5. The Camden Miscellany by Royal Historical Society (Great Britain), Camden Society (Great Britain) (1895)
"... is entered among the rest of the benefactors of that College :—Capellae Omnium Sanctorum in Collo Regu Benefac- torcs— Nath'd, Baro Crew, Epu' Dun*'*. ..."

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