Corse vs Torse - What's the difference?
corse | torse |
(obsolete) A (living) body.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.i:
(archaic) A dead body, a corpse.
* 1796 , Matthew Lewis, The Monk , Folio Society 1985, p. 214:
(heraldry) A twist of cloth or wreath underneath and part of a crest. Always shown as six twists, the first tincture being the tincture of the field, the second the tincture of the metal, and so on.
As a verb corse
is .As a noun torse is
(heraldry) a twist of cloth or wreath underneath and part of a crest always shown as six twists, the first tincture being the tincture of the field, the second the tincture of the metal, and so on.corse
English
(wikipedia corse)Noun
(en noun)- that lewd ribauld with vile lust aduaunst / Layd first his filthy hands on virgin cleene, / To spoile her daintie corse so faire and sheene [...].
- Ambrosio beheld before him that once noble and majestic form, now become a corse , cold, senseless, and disgusting.
