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Definition of Tournure
1. n. Turn; contour; figure.
Definition of Tournure
1. a contour [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tournure
Literary usage of Tournure
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The royal phraseological English-French, French-English dictionary by John Charles Tarver (1853)
"Cette femme a une jolie tournure, that woman ha» a graceful appearance. (Turn.)
J'ai donné une bonne tournure à votre affaire, I gave a favourable turn to ..."
2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1846)
"I have thought it would be a subject worthy of some scholar capable of mastering
so occult a subject, to determine whether the necessity of the tournure has ..."
3. The Knickerbocker. by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew, Timothy Flint, Washington Irving (1846)
"I have thought it would be a subject worthy of some scholar capable of mastering
so occult a subject, to determine whether the necessity of the tournure has ..."
4. The English Illustrated Magazine (1892)
"The first sign of its decadence came in the revival of the " bustle," or as it
was then called the tournure, which as before was used to support the skirt ..."
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