corse
/kɔɹs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.39 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
An uncommon surname originating in Europe, specifically the United Kingdom and Scandinavia.
name
A village and civil parish in Forest of Dean district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO7828).
Example Sentences
- "that lewd ribauld with vile lust aduaunst / Layd first his filthy hands on virgin cleene, / To spoile her daintie corse so faire and sheene […]"
- "[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."
- "'Twas then attested that he had been found / At no great distance from the bleeding corse"
- "chorus. Thine eyes will tell thee!—Yonder, see the lifeless corse. The Scene opens and discovers the corse of the Queen, her attendants weeping around it. creon. Alas! O new calamity! What more / Of ill hath Fate in store for me? Here, here / Within these arms I clasp my lifeless son: / And yonder see my wife a bleeding corse!"
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /kɔɹs/
- British English: /kɔːs/