querpo

Q10U1E1R1P3O1

noun

The inner or body garments; underwear.

OriginSpanish cuerpo →
Scrabble 17
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Meanings

nounquerpo (uncountable)
  1. obsoleteuncountableThe inner or body garments; underwear.

    Boy: my Cloake, and Rapier; it fits not a Gentleman of my ranck, to walke the streets in Querpo.

    1647, Beaumont and Fletcher, Loves Cure
    1 more example

    I would fain see him walk in querpo, like a cased rabbet, without his holy furr upon his back, that the world may once behold the inside of a fryar.

    1681, John Dryden, The Spanish fryar

Origin

  1. Spanishcuerpo
  2. Englishquerpo

Spanish cuerpo

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Cite this entry
APA

querpo. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/querpo

MLA

“querpo.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/querpo. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “querpo,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/querpo.

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