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Corps

//kɔː// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A battlefield formation composed of two or more divisions.
  2. 2
    A corps de ballet.

    "The performers were all creditable dancers as well as comedians […] even the largest of them cavorted about en pointe with wonderful ease, and the corps work was extremely precise in its inaccuracies."

  3. 3
    plural of corp form-of, plural
  4. 4
    Obsolete spelling of corpse. alt-of, obsolete

    "How to keep the corps ſeven dayes from corruption by anointing and waſhing, without exenteration, were an hazardable peece of art, in our choiſeſt practiſe."

  5. 5
    an army unit usually consisting of two or more divisions and their support wordnet
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  1. 6
    An organized group of people united by a common purpose.

    "diplomatic corps"

  2. 7
    a body of people associated together wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From French corps d'armée (literally “army body”), from Latin corpus (“body”). Doublet of corpse and corpus. See also English riff.

Etymology 2

Clipping.

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