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Corse vs Dorse - What's the difference?

corse | dorse |

As a verb corse

is .

As a noun dorse is

the baltic or variable cod (gadus callarias ), by some believed to be the young of the common codfish or dorse can be the back of a book.

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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    dorse

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The Baltic or variable cod (Gadus callarias ), by some believed to be the young of the common codfish.

    • Etymology 2

    Compare (etyl) (lena) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The back of a book.
  • * Wood
    • Books, all richly bound, with gilt dorses .
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