Corse
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corse¹
- /kɔːs/ UK
- /kɔɹs/ US
Sounds like coarse, course · Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)s
Where it comes from
From Middle English cors, from Old French cors, from Latin corpus (“body”). Doublet of corpus and corpse, and distantly of riff. Compare corset.
noun 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 […]
- 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?
Corse²
proper noun
- 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).
