Meaning & use
corse
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An archaic or poetic word for a dead body; a corpse.
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The knight was buried, his corse wrapped in a simple linen shroud.
The poem describes mourners weeping over the fallen soldier's corse.
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A Middle English form that survived in poetry long after "corpse" became the standard prose term, appearing in works by Spenser and Coleridge.
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