Corbeau
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Corbeau is a noun meaning The black vulture, Coragyps atratus.
Meaning
The black vulture, Coragyps atratus.
More Meanings
- A very dark shade of green, almost black.
- (historical) A man who carts away the dead plague victims.
Example Sentences
A whale man, if you see a whale. It beach. It taking up the whole of La Tinta. You not see the corbeaux? The Marines say they think it must be dead.
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.
The next day she died and her body was removed by the corbeaux (the men who carted away the dead) - an ignominious death like that of Jesus Christ, wrote the annalist.
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.
Word Forms
- corbeaux
Related Words
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