Image:Cornelis Vroom Spanish Men of War Engaging Barbary Corsairs.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Spanish ship fighting Corsairs
Image:F4U Corsair.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Corsair fighter
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English
Etymology
From French corsaire, from French lettre de course, alternative term for letter of marque.
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Pronunciation
IPA|/�k�:s�:/
audio|en-us-corsair.ogg|Audio (US)
Noun
en-noun
- A French privateer, especially from the port of St-Malo
- 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&actsurround&offset254475515&tagDickens,+Charles,+1812-1870:+Barnaby+Rudge,+1840&querycorsair&idDicBarn Chapter 34.
- The ship of privateers or pirates, especially of French nationality
- Turkish Corsair: A barbary pirate, or barbary pirate ship (from Algeria, which was nominally in the Ottoman (Turkish) Empire).
- A nocturnal w:assassin bug|assassin bug of the genus Rasahus, found in the southern USA.
- w:F4U Corsair|F4U? Corsair: A World War II fighter aircraft.
Translations
trans-top|privateersman or pirate
French: pirate, corsaire
Japanese: ���� (korusea)
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Polish: korsarz m
Russian: пи�а� m
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trans-top|pirate ship or privateer
French: corsaire
Japanese: 海�������������, kaizoku (sen)�
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Russian: капе� m
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