Associations to the word «Tourbillon»

Wiktionary

TOURBILLON, noun. A rotating frame, containing the escapement of a clock or watch, that attempts to compensate for the effects of gravity.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne