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Meaning & History
From the name of a mythical herb that is supposed to cause people to repeatedly run around in circles if stepped on (the name of the herb is derived from the French tourment meaning "torture"). This is the name of the wicked ogress who raises Aimée in Madame d'Aulnoy's fairy tale The Bee and the Orange Tree (1697).