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Corse vs Corbe - What's the difference?

corse | corbe |

As a verb corse

is .

As an adjective corbe is

(obsolete) crooked.

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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    corbe

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) crooked
  • * Spenser
    • Corbe shoulder.
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