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Tournure

   Also found in: Legal 0.04 sec.
Tour`nure´
n.1.
1.Turn; contour; figure.
2.Any device used by women to expand the skirt of a dress below the waist; a bustle.


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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.
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