corsage

Borrowed from French corsage.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kɔːˈsɑːʒ/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /kɔɹˈsɑʒ/

corsage (plural corsages)

1. (obsolete) The size or shape of a person's body.
2. (now historical) The waist or bodice of a woman's dress.
3. A small bouquet of flowers, originally worn attached to the bodice of a woman's dress.
   • 2011, “The Weekend” (32:42 from the start), in Homeland, season 1, episode 7, spoken by Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes):

     Brody (Damian Lewis): Will you go to the prom with me? / Carrie: Do I get a corsage?

   • 2025, S.E. Case, chapter 1, in Rigsby WI‎^[1], volume 1: Foothold, →ISBN, retrieved 28 August 2025, page 82:

     Here, I got a corsage for you to give to Jenna. I don't know if kids still do corsages. I always got ones for Darius' girlfriends. This one is made with lilies.

• nosegay
• bouquet
• posy

• cargoes, socager

From Old French cors (“body”) +‎ -age.

• IPA^(key): /kɔʁ.saʒ/

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corsage m (plural corsages)

1. (obsolete) body, torso
2. (historical) bodice, corsage
3. blouse, camisole; top

• → English: corsage

• “corsage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.