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corse
UK /kɔːs/ US /kɔɹs/
noun 2name 2
Collocations
3ADJ.
cold, senseless
VERB + CORSE
become
CORSE + NOUN
faire
Definitions
noun
1
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 […]
2
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?
Ambrosio beheld before him that once noble and majestic form, now become a corse, cold, senseless, and disgusting.
name
1
An uncommon surname originating in Europe, specifically the United Kingdom and Scandinavia.
2
A village and civil parish in Forest of Dean district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO7828).
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Synonyms
noun — a region of France on the island of Corsica
- corsica
noun — an island in the Mediterranean
- corsica
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Idioms & Phrases
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that lewd ribauld with vile lust aduaunst / Layd first his filthy hands on virgin cleene, / To spoile her daintie corse so faire and sheene […]
Wiktionary02
[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 diſ
Wiktionary03
Ambrosio beheld before him that once noble and majestic form, now become a corse, cold, senseless, and disgusting.
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