Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
cuerpo .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The inner or body garments taken together. See
cuerpo .
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- noun obsolete The
inner orbody garments ;underwear .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The horse will no longer be tortured for the amusement of man; but fellow bipeds, equipped _in querpo_, will start for the prize, and, with the fleetness of a North-American Indian, bound along the lists, amid the acclamations and cheers of admiring multitudes.
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Is one of the makings up of a gentleman as well as his clothes, and somewhat in the same nature, for he is cast behind his master as fashionably as his sword and cloak are, and he is but _in querpo_ [81] without him.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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[81] _In querpo_ is a corruption from the Spanish word _cuérpo_.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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If men will only use religion to cover their unrighteousness, I had rather they would put off their cloaks, and be knaves in querpo, that every body may know them, than that they should go like highwaymen in vizards and disguises, only that they may rob honest men the more securely.
The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 10. 1630-1694 1820
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Well enough, add but a Harlequin and Scaramouch, and I shall mount in querpo.
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-- I would fain see him walk in querpo, like a cased rabbit, without his holy fur upon his back, that the world may once behold the inside of a friar.
The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 06 John Dryden 1665
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On the platform also stands his attendant, a figure dressed in the diamonded motley of Harlequin.p. 126. _in querpo.
The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I Aphra Behn 1664
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_ Well enough, add but a _Harlequin_ and _Scaramouch_, and I shall mount in querpo.
The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I Aphra Behn 1664
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a Coward in querpo, a walking Bunch of Garlick, a pickl'd Pilchard! abuse the noble Captain, and bear it off in State, like a Christmas
The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I Aphra Behn 1664
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"Dr. Johnson explains querpo, which he says is corrupted from cuerpo
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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