corporas

From Middle English coperas, copereaus, corpas, corperas, corperaus, corporas, corporasse, corporaus, corporax, corporeals, corprax, from Old French corporals, corporaus, plural of corporal (“corporal”, adjective).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔː(ɹ)pəɹəs/

corporas (plural corporases)

1. (obsolete) The corporal, or communion cloth.
   • c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 63, lines 60–63:

     The hawke tyryd on a bone,
     And in the holy place
     She mutyd there a chase
     Upon my corporas face.

     The hawk seized and tore at a bone,
     And in the holy place (altar)
     She dropped a fall of dung there
     Upon my corporas’s face.

   • 1655, Thomas Fuller, The History of the University of Cambridge, since the Conquest, [London]: [[…] Iohn Williams […]], →OCLC:

     corporas clothes

• “corporas”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Porcaros, sorocarp

corporās

1. second-person singular present active indicative of corporō