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querpo

querpo noun: the inner or body garments; underwear.

Noun

querpo (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) The inner or body garments; underwear.
    • Boy: my Cloake, and Rapier; it fits not a Gentleman of my ranck, to walke the streets in Querpo.1647, Beaumont and Fletcher, Loves Cure
    • I would fain see him walk in querpo, like a cased rabbet, without his holy furr upon his back, that the world may once behold the inside of a fryar.1681, John Dryden, The Spanish fryar

Origin of querpo

Spanish cuerpo

Questions about querpo

What does querpo mean?
Querpo means the inner or body garments; underwear.
What part of speech is querpo?
Querpo is a noun.

Words near querpo in the dictionary

  1. querns
  2. quernstone
  3. quernstones
  4. quero
  5. queros
  6. querpo
  7. querquedule
  8. querquedules
  9. Querquetulanae
  10. Querrey
  11. Querreys

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