## 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.

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