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Corsair

//kɔːɹsɛəɹ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A French privateer, especially from the port of Saint-Malo.
  2. 2
    a swift pirate ship (often operating with official sanction) wordnet
  3. 3
    A privateer or pirate in general.

    ""If I had been born a corsair or a pirate, a brigand, genteel highwayman or patriot―and they're the same thing," thought Mr. Tappertit, musing among the nine-pins, "I should have been all right. But to drag out a ^([sic]) ignoble existence unbeknown to mankind in general―patience! I will be famous yet.""

  4. 4
    a pirate along the Barbary Coast wordnet
  5. 5
    The ship of privateers or pirates, especially of French nationality.
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  1. 6
    A nocturnal assassin bug of the genus Rasahus, found in the southern USA.
  2. 7
    A Californian market fish (Sebastes rosaceus).

Etymology

Borrowed from French corsaire, from Medieval Latin cursārius (“pirate”), from Latin cursus (“course, a running; plunder, hostile inroad”). Doublet of courser and hussar.

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