corsage

C2+ Topic:People & Society

US /kɔrˈsɑʒ/ UK /kɔːˈsɑːʒ/ See IPA manual

Meanings

1

noun
a small bouquet of flowers worn pinned to a woman's dress

He pinned a white orchid corsage to her gown before the dance.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · a small bouquet of flowers... bouquet posy nosegay spray

Word family

Related forms corset corps corpse

Etymology

From Old French 'corsage' ('bust, bodice'), from 'cors' ('body'), from Latin 'corpus' ('body'). The sense shifted from the bodice to flowers worn upon it.

corsage Old French corpus Latin

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Topics

People & Society

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# corsage

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /kɔrˈsɑʒ/
**IPA (UK):** /kɔːˈsɑːʒ/

## Meanings
1. a small bouquet of flowers worn pinned to a woman's dress

## Examples
- He pinned a white orchid corsage to her gown before the dance.

## Synonyms
- bouquet
- posy
- nosegay
- spray

## Related Forms
- corset
- corps
- corpse

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: corsage
- Root: corpus

## Etymology
From Old French 'corsage' ('bust, bodice'), from 'cors' ('body'), from Latin 'corpus' ('body'). The sense shifted from the bodice to flowers worn upon it.

## AI Etymology
Corsage is from Old French 'corsage' ('bust, bodice'), from 'cors' ('body'), from Latin 'corpus' ('body'). The sense shifted from the bodice to flowers worn upon it. The ancestry passes through Old French corsage and Latin corpus. In present use as a noun, it means "a small bouquet of flowers worn pinned to a woman's dress", keeping the historical formation close to the word's ordinary semantic work. Related words include corset, corps, and corpse. The surrounding word family keeps the same base visible in corset, corps, and corpse, showing how the headword belongs to a larger cluster rather than standing alone.

## Topics
- People & Society

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