tournure means Manner, bearing. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 89 out of 100.
noun
- Manner, bearing.“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.”
- Turn; contour; figure.“[…] 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.”
- Phrasing, turn of phrase.“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.”
- Any device used by women to expand the skirt of a dress below the waist; a bustle.