Tournure

Synonyms for "tournure" (17 found)

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Fortunately, your Parisian tournure will save your vivacity from vulgarity. Though, I must say, not one English girl in a thousand is to be trusted out of the security of insipidity; but you are French enough to be animated without being pert.

Source: wiktionary

Winterbourne stood looking after her; and as she moved away, drawing her muslin furbelows over the gravel, said to himself that she had the tournure of a princess.

Source: wiktionary

[…] the word serpentine does not express the great line which makes the elegant tournure of a statue; for nature does not permit our head, in its ordinary motions, to turn more than a fourth of the circumference either to the right or to the left.

Source: wiktionary

Voiture belonged to a race of poets essentially French, who sacrificed to the graces instead of the muses; to whom Cupid, with his wings and arrows, was the ideal of love, and whose art of poetry consisted in epigram, tournure, readiness, and facility.

Source: wiktionary

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