• Corse

    Pronunciation

    • UK IPA: /kɔːs/

    Origin

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

    Full definition of corse

    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.

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