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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A small bouquet of flowers worn at the shoulder or waist or on the wrist.
  2. n. The bodice or waist of a dress.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. (kôr′ sā˙j). The body.
  2. n. The body or waist of a woman's dress; a bodice: as, a corsage of velvet.

Wiktionary

  1. n. obsolete The size or shape of a person's body.
  2. n. obsolete except historical The waist or bodice of a lady's dress.
  3. n. A small bouquet of flowers, originally worn attached to the bodice of a woman's dress.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The waist or bodice of a lady's dress.
  2. n. a flower or small arrangement of flowers worn by a person as a personal ornament. Typically worn by women on special occasions (as, at a ball or an anniversary celebration), a corsage may be worn pinned to the chest, or tied to the wrist. It is usually larger or more elaborate than a boutonniere.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an arrangement of flowers that is usually given as a present

Etymologies

  1. From Old French cors ("body") + -age. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, torso, from Old French, from cors, body, from Latin corpus; see kwrep- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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