corps-à-corps

French

Etymology

Nominalized use of corps à corps.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kɔ.ʁa.kɔʁ/

Noun

corps-à-corps m (usually uncountable, plural corps-à-corps)

(fighting) hand-to-hand combat
le combat au corps à corps ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Further reading

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

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