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单词 torteau
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torteaun.

/ˈtɔːtəʊ/
Forms: Plural torteaux /tɔrtoz/. Also plural Middle English tortellis, 1500s tourteaulx, torteaulxes, 1500s–1700s torteauxes, 1600s tortauxes, 1700s torteaux's, tourteaux, tourteauxes.
Etymology: < French tourteau ‘a large round cake or flat bannock of bread’, a mass of oilcake, a wooden disk used as a crusher, and in heraldry as below; in Old French tortel (12th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter), in Guernsey tourtel (= Provençal tortelh , Catalan tortell ), derivative of tourte (tourte n.1, torte n.).
1. Heraldry. A roundle gules; the specific name of a small red circular figure charged upon a shield, supposed to represent a cake of bread.
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > charge: device on shield > [noun] > less honourable charge > circular device > of specific tinctures
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1486 Bk. St. Albans, Her. e vj Ther be also tortellis yt be litill Cakys the wich be grettir then ballys & [= if] tharmys be truly made as here it is opyn... Portat tres tortellas rubias in campo aureo... He berith golde & iij. Cakys of gowles.
1530 in Ancestor (1904) 11 180 A lymmers hede rased sable with a coller siluer full of tourteaulx.
1562 G. Legh Accedens of Armory 151 b He beareth or, x torteauxes... These haue been called of olde blazoures, wastelles, and are cakes of breade.
1725 J. Coats New Dict. Heraldry (rev. ed.) Tourteaux, according to the French, and Tourteauxes, as we make the Plural Number in English, are small Rounds..in England,..they are always Red; but the French give the same Name to such as are of any other Colour, expressing the same... The Tourteaux in Latin are call'd Tortellæ.
1825 Gentleman's Mag. 95 i. 305/1 Sir Thomas Dacre.. used these arms: Argent, a chevron Sable between three Torteaux, on each an escallop Argent.
1894 Parker's Gloss. Her. Torteau..: the name now always applied to a roundle gules... The figure is said to have been intended to represent the sacred Host.
2. A flat cake, a pancake. Obsolete.Cf. quot. 1562 at sense 1.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pancake, tortilla, or oatcake > [noun] > pancake
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1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes II. ix. xix. §3. 1652 Torteaux and Bignets, and many other sorts of food... They make pottage, and Torteaux and Galletus.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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