corposant
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of corposant
C17: from Portuguese corpo-santo, literally: holy body, from Latin corpus sanctum
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For you Are too much lit to mark a corposant.
From Emblems Of Love by Lascelles Abercrombie
I had seen a ship, and there she was to leeward of us, with the corposant clinging to one of her spars.
From The Log of a Privateersman by W. (William) Rainey
His vivid sense of beauty even hovers sometimes like a corposant over the somewhat stiff lines of his Latin prose.
From Among My Books Second Series by James Russell Lowell
I looked, and saw a corposant, as it is called at sea,—a St. Elmo's fire,—burning at the end of the crossjack-yard.
From Stories by English Authors: the Sea by Various
There was fever between the decks; there was fever in black hearts; of dark nights a corposant burned now at this masthead, now at that.
From Sir Mortimer by Mary Johnston
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