"corpes" meaning in English

See corpes in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: corpeses [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} corpes (plural corpeses)
  1. Obsolete spelling of corpse. Tags: alt-of, obsolete Alternative form of: corpse
    Sense id: en-corpes-en-noun-znybRB62 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1591, Edmund Spenser, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5:",
          "text": "Rome is no more: but if the shade of Rome May of the bodie yeeld a seeming sight, It's like a corse drawne forth out of the tombe By magicke skill out of eternall night: The corpes of Rome in ashes is entombed, And her great spirite, reioyned to the spirite Of this great masse, is in the same enwombed; But her brave writings, which, her famous merite In spight of Time out of the dust doth reare, Doo make her idole* through the world appeare.",
          "type": "quote"
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          "ref": "1566, William Adlington, The Golden Asse:",
          "text": "And he spake unto her and said, Behold here is one that will enterprise to watch the corpes of your husband this night.",
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