corbeau

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The black vulture, Coragyps atratus.
    — The local corbeaux, black, heavy, hunched, hopped about the slopes of rubbish; the children of the shanty town ran between the traffic on the rubbish-strewn highway to get to the dump.
  2. A man who carts away the dead plague victims. historical
    — By 8 August, it was necessary to conscript beggars to bury the dead because the corbeaux, special bearers of plague-striken corpses, no longer sufficed for the task.
  3. A very dark shade of green, almost black.

词形变化

corbeaux plural

词汇关系

相关词
corbie

词源

Borrowed from French corbeau m (“raven”). Doublet of corbel.
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