Noun

(corps)

(military) A battlefield formation composed of two or more divisions.

An organized group of people united by a common purpose.

* diplomatic corps

* White House press corps

Noun

(es)

*{{quote-book, year=1591, author=Edmund Spenser, title=The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Rome is no more: but if the shade of Rome May of the bodie yeeld a seeming sight, It's like a corse drawne forth out of the tombe By magicke skill out of eternall night: The corpes of Rome in ashes is entombed, And her great spirite, reioyned to the spirite Of this great masse, is in the same enwombed; But her brave writings, which, her famous merite In spight of Time out of the dust doth reare, Doo make her idole* through the world appeare. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1566, author=William Adlington, title=The Golden Asse, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=And he spake unto her and said, Behold here is one that will enterprise to watch the corpes of your husband this night. }}