[ US /ˈkɔɹsɛɹ/ ]
[ UK /kˈɔːse‍ə/ ]
NOUN
  1. a swift pirate ship (often operating with official sanction)
  2. a pirate along the Barbary Coast
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How To Use corsair In A Sentence

  • French corsairs settled on the western part of the island in the 17th century and Spain recognized the French claims to the area in 1697 in the Treaty of Ryswick.
  • From beneath his cloak, their follower drew a rusting corsair sabre and menaced the horse with it.
  • The British finally solved the Corsair's landing problems by training its pilots to fly a curved landing approach, which allowed them to keep the deck visible until just before touchdown.
  • If there were any corsairs docked, they were well disguised…
  • That other "corsair" -- as the Spaniards called him -- that other charming and heroic shape in England's chequered chronicle of chivalry and crime -- famous in arts and arms, politics, science, literature, endowed with so many of the gifts by which men confer lustre on their age and country, whose name was already a part of History of the United Netherlands, 1590-99 — Complete
  • Gigabyte only lists a couple of DDR2 2 meg chips on their compatible list but the pair of Corsair chips I just bought work fine in "ganged" mode (dual channel, don't ask me why they had to change the name). Epinions Recent Content for Home
  • Many people think that was his name because it's piratical, and so it was appropriate that he called his yacht Corsair. Morgan: American Financier
  • Mousemaid Mariel undertakes a quest for vengeance against the searat Gabool and his Rodent Corsairs, who imprisoned her father and left her to drown at sea. Fred's Head from APH
  • Xtreme Systems honcho Charles 'Fugger' Wirth teamed up with Corsair, Gigabyte and Intel to break the 3DMark05 world record, stealing it back from Bit-tech.net Feed
  • ‘Or at least a hundred pirate corsairs,’ Garcia added.
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