Meanings
plural corporases
- obsoleteThe corporal, or communion cloth.
corporas clothes
1655, Thomas Fuller, The History of the University of Cambridge, since the Conquest, [London]: [[…] Iohn Williams […]], →OCLC1 more example
The hawke tyryd on a bone, And in the holy place She mutyd there a chase Upon my corporas face.
The hawk seized and tore at a bone, And in the holy place (altar) She dropped a fall of dung there Upon my corporas’s face.
c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 63, lines 60–63
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Origin
- Old Frenchcorporals
- Middle Englishcoperas
- Englishcorporas
From Middle English coperas, copereaus, corpas, corperas, corperaus, corporas, corporasse, corporaus, corporax, corporeals, corprax, from Old French corporals, corporaus, plural of corporal (“corporal”, adjective).
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