Corse

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /kɔːs/

Origin

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

Full definition of corse

Noun

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