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corsage (s.xii3/4)
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corsage (s.xii3/4)

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corssage,  cursage  
  FEW:  corpus 2/ii,1212b Gdf:  corsage 2,315c GdfC:  corsage 9,208b TL: corsage 2,909 DEAF:  cors 1 (corsage)  DMF:  corsage  TLF:  corsage  OED:  corsage n.  MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

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1anat.body, physical shape: 
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xivin )  Tot sait ele sage de corsage Fole semblant feit sovent huntage  Corset ANTS 471
( 1266-1300; MS: c.1300 )  la premiere maniere est solonc la diversitez de conplexion de poisons et de lur corsage  Waterford busby 285.S99.2
♦build, physique: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Fier[e]s sunt les bestes […] A treble ordre de denz e granz decorsage  Rom Chev ANTS 7212
( c.1185; MS: s.xiiim )  durement vus resembla E d’estature et de corsage  Ipom BFR 7063
( 1190-93; MS: s.xiv1 )  Iceles genz […] Furent de corsage mult grantz  S Edm Life ANTS 1924
( 1190-1210; MS: c.1300 )  Mult par ont loé sun corsage, Sa feiture […]  Waldef BB 8373
2shape, size: 
( MS: s.xiii1 )  exacontalite […] Mult est petite en corsage  Lapid 187.971
prendre corsage
to take bodily form: 
( c.1230; MS: 1275-85 )  Angeles pernent de li (=fire) corsage, Quant funt en terre le Deu message  Pet Phil 1793
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