corse

See also Corse

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Old French cors, from Latin corpus (“body”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /kɔːs/

Noun

corse (plural corses)

1. (obsolete) A (living) body.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:

     that lewd ribauld with vile lust aduaunst / Layd first his filthy hands on virgin cleene, / To spoile her daintie corse so faire and sheene [...].

2. (archaic) A dead body, a corpse.
   • 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society 1985, p. 214:

     Ambrosio beheld before him that once noble and majestic form, now become a corse, cold, senseless, and disgusting.

Anagrams

• cores
• score

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French

Pronunciation

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Adjective

corse m. (f. corse, m. plural corses, f. plural corses)

1. Corsican

Noun

corse m. (usually uncountable)

1. Corsican (language)

Anagrams

• ocres
• score, scoré

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Italian

Pronunciation

córse, /ˈkorse/, /"korse/

Verb

corse

1. third-person singular past historic of correre

Noun

corse m. pl.

1. Plural form of corso.

Noun

corse f. pl.

1. Plural form of corsa.

Anagrams

• Creso