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‖ tournure|turnyr|
[F. tournure, earlier tournedre:—late pop.L. tornātūra, f. tornāre to turn; in Fr. (1) rounded form given to anything; (2) manner in which anything is fashoned.]
1. (Graceful) manner or bearing; cultivated address.
1748Chesterfield Let. 12 Oct., The easy manners and tournure of the world. 1816Sporting Mag. XLVII 118 That ease and tournure so indispensable in the composition of a gentleman. 1832F. Trollope Dom. Manners Amer. ii. (1839) 7 Her manner was easy and graceful, with a good deal of French tournure. 1878Cornh. Mag. June 687 She had the tournure of a princess.
2. The turning of language or of a phrase; mode of expression. rare.
1816J. Scott Vis. Paris (ed. 5) 194 The tournure of the phrase, when a woman is spoken to, cannot be mistaken.
3. Contour, outline, shape (of a limb, etc.).
1827Disraeli Viv. Grey III. v. xv. 299 Touched in with freedom—a grand tournure—great goût in the swell of the neck. 1841C'tess Blessington Idler in France I. xv. 354 There was the same classic tournure of heads and profiles. 1848Clough Bothie v. 112 The tournure of the elbow is shapely. 1864Daily Tel. 5 Nov., You have..the exquisite tournure of a figure, the subtle trick of a ridiculous expression.
4. A pad worn round the waist or hips to give shapeliness to a woman's figure; also = bustle n.2 Also, a kind of corset.
1831H. Granville Let. Jan. (1894) II. 75 Very fat, but squeezed into a tournure. 1872Young Englishwoman Dec. 646/2 The tournure is high indeed behind... It has superseded the crinoline. 1874Echo 30 Dec. (Stanf.), The tournure..is still worn. 1882Daily News 3 June 3/1 The tournure is a small horse⁓hair pad, worn under the dress at the waist. It throws out the skirt from the figure. |