a. [f. as prec. + -ED1.]
1. Wearing a torque: see TORQUE1.
1623. Cockeram, Torquated, one wearing a chaine.
1656. Blount, Torquated..., that weares a collar or chain.
2. Formed as or like a torque; twisted from a narrow strip or band.
1851. D. Wilson, Preh. Ann. (1863), I. 113. The parish of Shapinsay … in which was found a beautiful torquated ring. Ibid., II. vi. 470. The discovery of … torquated neck and arm rings. Ibid., II. IV. iii. 258. The torquated hoop.
3. Zool. = TORQUATE.
1891. in Cent. Dict.
