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corbeau¹

  • /ˈkɔːbəʊ/ UK
  • /kɔːˈbəʊ/ UK
  • /kɔɹˈboʊ/ US

Where it comes from

Borrowed from French corbeau m (“raven”). Doublet of corbel.

noun 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.
  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.
  3. A very dark shade of green, almost black.

Corbeau²

Where it comes from

From French Corbeau.

proper noun Corbeaus

  1. A surname from French.

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"corbeau." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/corbeau. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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corbeau. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/corbeau

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"corbeau." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/corbeau.

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@misc{corbeau_2026,
  title = {corbeau},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/corbeau},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}