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noun kɔːskɔrs archaic A corpse. Example sentencesExamples - This makes sense given Hamlet's ‘What may this mean, / That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel / Revisits thus the glimpses of the moon.’
- Is there meant to be a pun, do you think, on course and corse?
Synonyms anatomy, figure, frame, form, shape, build, physique, framework, skeleton, bones, flesh and bones
Origin Middle English: from Old French cors 'body', from Latin corpus. Compare with corpse. Rhymes coarse, course, divorce, endorse (US indorse), enforce, force, gorse, hoarse, horse, morse, Norse, perforce, reinforce, sauce, source, torse nounkôrskɔrs archaic A corpse. Example sentencesExamples - This makes sense given Hamlet's ‘What may this mean, / That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel / Revisits thus the glimpses of the moon.’
- Is there meant to be a pun, do you think, on course and corse?
Synonyms anatomy, figure, frame, form, shape, build, physique, framework, skeleton, bones, flesh and bones
Origin Middle English: from Old French cors ‘body’, from Latin corpus. Compare with corpse. |