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noun 
  1. A French privateer, especially from the port of St-Malo
  2. A privateer or pirate in general
1840 "If I had been born a corsair or a pirate, a brigand, genteel highwayman or patriot -- and they're the same thing," thought Mr. Tappertit, musing among the nine-pins, "I should have been all right. But to drag out a ignoble existence unbeknown to mankind in general -- patience! I will be famous yet. " Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=254475515&tag=Dickens,+Charles,+1812-1870:+Barnaby+Rudge,+1840&query=corsair&id=DicBarn Chapter 34.
  1. The ship of privateers or pirates, especially of French nationality
  2. Turkish Corsair: A barbary pirate, or barbary pirate ship (from Algeria, which was nominally in the Ottoman (Turkish) Empire).
  3. A nocturnal w:assassin bug, assassin bug of the genus Rasahus, found in the southern USA.
  4. w:F4U Corsair, F4U? Corsair: A World War II fighter aircraft.
Translations: 
  • French: corsaire
Etymology: From French corsaire, from French lettre de course, alternative term for letter of marque.


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