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Corbeau

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from French.
Noun
  1. 1
    The black vulture, Coragyps atratus.

    "The local corbeaux, black, heavy, hunched, hopped about the slopes of rubbish; the children of the shanty town ran between the traffic on the rubbish-strewn highway to get to the dump."

  2. 2
    A man who carts away the dead plague victims. historical

    "By 8 August, it was necessary to conscript beggars to bury the dead because the corbeaux, special bearers of plague-striken corpses, no longer sufficed for the task."

  3. 3
    A very dark shade of green, almost black.

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French corbeau m (“raven”).

Etymology 2

From French Corbeau.

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