"corse" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /kɔːs/ [UK], /kɔɹs/ [General-American] Forms: corses [plural]
Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)s Etymology: From Middle English cors, from Old French cors, from Latin corpus (“body”). Doublet of corpus and corpse, and distantly of riff. Compare corset. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|cors}} Middle English cors, {{der|en|fro|cors}} Old French cors, {{cog|la|corpus||body}} Latin corpus (“body”), {{doublet|en|corpus|corpse}} Doublet of corpus and corpse, {{m|en|riff|id=belly}} riff, {{m|en|corset}} corset Head templates: {{en-noun}} corse (plural corses)
  1. (obsolete) A (living) body. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-corse-en-noun-~KfoIZ7b Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 74 26
  2. (archaic) A dead body, a corpse. Tags: archaic
    Sense id: en-corse-en-noun-l9hI1uGX

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for corse meaning in English (2.6kB)

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          "text": "chorus. Thine eyes will tell thee!—Yonder, see the lifeless corse. The Scene opens and discovers the corse of the Queen, her attendants weeping around it. creon. Alas! O new calamity! What more / Of ill hath Fate in store for me? Here, here / Within these arms I clasp my lifeless son: / And yonder see my wife a bleeding corse!",
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