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Definition of Corposants
1. corposant [n] - See also: corposant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Corposants
Literary usage of Corposants
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1889)
"Balls of fire (corposants) rested on the mastheads and on the extremities of ...
The natives on board were busily engaged in putting out the corposants with ..."
2. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society by Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain) (1903)
"There are large numbers of records of corposants in the logs at the Meteorological
Office, but it seems to be exceptionally rare for observers to detect the ..."
3. Folk-Etymology: A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions Or Words Perverted in by Abram Smythe Palmer (1882)
"It was a further perversion of corpu- sanse, corposants, which is a sailor's ...
While baleful tritons to the shipwreck guide, Ainl corposants along the ..."
4. The Standard American Encyclopedia of Arts, Sciences, History, Biography by John Clark Ridpath (1897)
"Balls of fire (corposants) rested on ships' mastheads and on the extremities ...
The natives on board were busily engaged in putting out the corposants with ..."
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