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Carse vs Corse - What's the difference?

carse | corse |

As a noun carse

is (scotland) low, fertile land; a river valley.

As a verb corse is

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carse

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (Scotland) Low, fertile land; a river valley.
    • (Jamieson)
    (Webster 1913)

    corse

    English

    (wikipedia corse)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A (living) body.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.i:
    • that lewd ribauld with vile lust aduaunst / Layd first his filthy hands on virgin cleene, / To spoile her daintie corse so faire and sheene [...].
  • (archaic) A dead body, a corpse.
  • * 1796 , Matthew Lewis, The Monk , Folio Society 1985, p. 214:
    • Ambrosio beheld before him that once noble and majestic form, now become a corse , cold, senseless, and disgusting.

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