An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
TORSE
Etymology 1
Via obsolete French torse (a wreath) from Latin torquēre (to twist).
Noun
torse (plural torses)
(heraldry) A twist of cloth or wreath underneath and forming part of a crest; an orle, a wreath. It is customarily shown with six twists, the first tincture being the tincture of the field, the second the tincture of the metal, and so on.
Synonyms
• orle
• wreath
Etymology 2
Noun
torse (plural torses)
Obsolete form of torso.
Anagrams
• Resto, resto, roset, rotes, sorte, store, tores
Source: Wiktionary
Torse, n. Etym: [OF., fr. OF. & F. tors, torse, twisted, wreathed, p. p. of tordre to twist, L. torquere. See Torture.]
1. (Her.)
Definition: A wreath.
2. Etym: [F. tors, torse, twisted.] (Geom.)
Definition: A developable surface. See under Developable.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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