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corps-a-corps

noun

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French corps-à-corps (literally “body to body”). Compare corps, corpse, corpus.

  1. derived from corps-à-corps — “body to body”

Definitions

  1. The action of two fencers coming into physical contact with one another with any portion…

    The action of two fencers coming into physical contact with one another with any portion of their bodies or hilts.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for corps-a-corps. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA