Associations to the word «Tournure»

Wiktionary

TOURNURE, noun. Turn; contour; figure
TOURNURE, noun. Any device used by women to expand the skirt of a dress below the waist; a bustle.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope