torquate

torquate
/tawr"kwit, -kwayt/, adj. Zool.
ringed about the neck, as with feathers or a color; collared.
[1655-65; < L torquatus adorned with a necklace, equiv. to torqu(es) twisted neck-chain + -atus -ATE1]

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