¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Torcs
1. torc [n] - See also: torc
Lexicographical Neighbors of Torcs
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*'*. ..."
Other Resources:
