Etymology

justacorps

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Today it means: A knee-length coat worn by men in the 17th and 18th centuries. Full definition →

French justaucorps
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The story

  1. French · derived fromjustaucorps
  2. English todayjustacorps

French justaucorps, literally "close to the body".

Words from the same roots

Frenchjustaucorps all →

juste-au-corps

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.