Meaning & use
corsair
A pirate or privateer, especially one who historically operated along the Barbary Coast of North Africa.
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The novel follows a daring corsair who raided merchant ships along the coast.
Museums display cutlasses and flags once carried by corsairs centuries ago.
A note on using this word
Corsair is a somewhat literary or historical term, less common in everyday speech than "pirate."
Words with a similar meaning
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