corbeaux

Noun

corbeau (plural corbeaux)

1. The black vulture, Coragyps atratus.
   • The local corbeaux, black, heavy, hunched, hopped about the slopes of rubbish; the children of the shanty town ran between the traffic on the rubbish-strewn highway to get to the dump.2011, V. S. Naipaul, A Way in the World, →ISBN
2. (historical) A man who carts away the dead plague victims.
   • By 8 August, it was necessary to conscript beggars to bury the dead because the corbeaux, special bearers of plague-striken corpses, no longer sufficed for the task.1972, David Victor Glass, Roger Revelle, Population and social change, page 234
3. A very dark shade of green, almost black.

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