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corporas en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈkɔː(ɹ)pəɹəs/

Etymology

From Middle English coperas, copereaus, corpas, corperas, corperaus, corporas, corporasse, corporaus, corporax, corporeals, corprax, from Old French corporals, corporaus, plural of corporal (“corporal”, adjective).

Meanings

1. (obsolete) The corporal, or communion cloth.
   • The hawke tyryd on a bone, And in the holy place She mutyd there a chase Upon my corporas face. c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 63, lines 60–63:
   • corporas clothes 1655, Thomas Fuller, The History of the University of Cambridge, since the Conquest, [London]: [[…] Iohn Williams […]], →OCLC:

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