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corses

corses is the plural of corse.

Meaning of corse

Noun

corse (plural corses)

  1. (obsolete) 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
  2. (archaic) 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...

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Questions about corses

What is corses the plural of?
Corses is the plural of corse.

Words near corses in the dictionary

  1. corsepresent
  2. corsepresents
  3. corseque
  4. corseques
  5. Corser
  6. corses
  7. corsesque
  8. corsesques
  9. corset
  10. corset effect
  11. corseted

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