Obs. [ad. F. tourte, dial. torte = Sp. and It. torta:—late L. tōrta (Vulg. 1 Chron. xvi. 3 tortam panis, Wyclif ‘a kake of brede’). A different word from L. torta twisted: see also TOURTE and TART.] A round cake (of bread).
1555. Eden, Decades, 194. They drawe a mylke thereof [i.e., of the coco-nut] … The which the Christian men of those regions put in the tortes or cakes which they make of the grayne of Maizium … by reason of the sayde mylke of Cocus, the tortes are more excellent to be eaten withowt offence to the stomake.
