corps-à-corps

French

Etymology

Nominalized use of corps à corps.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.ʁa.kɔʁ/

Noun

corps-à-corps m (usually uncountable, plural corps-à-corps)

1. (fighting) hand-to-hand combat

   le combat au corps à corps ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Further reading

• “corps-à-corps”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.