Cornage vs Carnage - What's the difference?
cornage | carnage |
A feudal tax levied on horned cattle
(legal) An ancient tenure of land, which obliged the tenant to give notice of an invasion by blowing a horn.
(Webster 1913)
Death and destruction.
What remains after a massacre, e.g. the corpses or gore.
Any chaotic situation.
* 2014 , Simon Spence, Happy Mondays: Excess All Areas
As nouns the difference between cornage and carnage
is that cornage is a feudal tax levied on horned cattle while carnage is death and destruction.cornage
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*carnage
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(en-noun)- The lads had recently returned from a wild summer on the party island of Ibiza, an increasingly popular hotspot for working-class British youth. But this was not a scene of drunken holiday carnage in tacky discos.