corse
UK/kɔːs/US/kɔɹs/
corse noun: a (living) body.
Noun
corse (plural corses)
- A (living) body.
- that lewd ribauld with vile lust aduaunst / Layd first his filthy hands on virgin cleene, / To spoile her daintie corse so faire and sheene […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
- A dead body, a corpse.
- [W]hat may this meane, / That thou, dead corſe, againe in compleate ſteele, / Reuiſſits thus the glimſes of the Moone, / Making night hideous, and vve fooles of nature, / So horridely to ſhake our diſpoſition, / VVith thoughts beyond the reaches of our ſoules?c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shake-speare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and Iohn Trundell...
- Ambrosio beheld before him that once noble and majestic form, now become a corse, cold, senseless, and disgusting.1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society, published 1985, page 214
Proper noun capitalized: Corse
Corse
- An uncommon surname originating in Europe, specifically the United Kingdom and Scandinavia.
- A village and civil parish in Forest of Dean district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO7828).
Examples of corse in a sentence
- 'Twas then attested that he had been found / At no great distance from the bleeding corse1838, Thomas Eagles, Brendallah, A Poem, Whittaker & Co., section LXIII, page 112:
- Thine eyes will tell thee!—Yonder, see the lifeless corse.[1845], Sophocles, translated by [William Bartholomew], An Imitative Version of the Choruses and the Melo-Dramatic Dialogue, with a...
Forms of corse
| plural | corses |
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Origin of corse
From Middle English cors, from Old French cors, from Latin corpus (“body”). Doublet of corpus and corpse, and distantly of riff. Compare corset.
Words formed from corse
Words that rhyme with corse
Questions about corse
- What does corse mean?
- Corse means a (living) body.
- How do you use corse in a sentence?
- 'Twas then attested that he had been found / At no great distance from the bleeding corse
- What part of speech is corse?
- Corse can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce corse?
- Corse is pronounced /kɔːs/ (UK).
- What is the plural of corse?
- The plural of corse is corses.
Words near corse in the dictionary
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