/kɔːs/, /kɔɹs/
OriginFrom Middle English cors, from Old French cors, from Latin corpus (“body”). Doublet of corpus and corpse, and distantly of riff. Compare corset.
- obsoleteA (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 […]”
- archaicA 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 diſ”
“Ambrosio beheld before him that once noble and majestic form, now become a corse, cold, senseless, and disgusting.”
“'Twas then attested that he had been found / At no great distance from the bleeding corse”
- 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).
Formscorses(plural)