Etymology

corsage

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Today it means: A small bouquet of flowers, originally worn attached to the bodice of a woman's dress. Full definition →

French corsage ← Old French cors ← Latin corpus
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*krep-
  2. Proto-Italic*korpos
  3. Latincorpus
  4. Old Frenchcors
  5. Frenchcorsage
  6. English todaycorsage

Borrowed from French corsage.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.