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- French · borrowed fromcorps-à-corps
- English todaycorps-a-corps
Unadapted borrowing from French corps-à-corps (literally “body to body”). Compare corps, corpse, corpus.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
corps-a-corps
Today it means: The action of two fencers coming into physical contact with one another with any portion of their bodies or hilts. Full definition →
French corps-à-corps