Torso (Ital.), strictly, signifies a trunk—e.g. the trunk of a tree—but is specially applied to a statue of which only the body remains.
Torso
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 250
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Torso (Ital.), strictly, signifies a trunk—e.g. the trunk of a tree—but is specially applied to a statue of which only the body remains.