Plural of corse; an archaic or dialectal term for corpses or dead bodies.
Plural of corse, an archaic form of 'corpse' from Old Norse kors or Old English cors meaning body. The word is primarily Scottish and Northern English dialect, used in older literature and poetry.
Corse is basically the poetic ancestor of corpse—you'll see it in older Scottish ballads and Gothic literature, and it sounds deliberately eerie, which is probably why poets favored it over the plainer 'corpse.'
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