CORBEAUX

Domain	Definition
Literature	Corbeaux Bearers, i.e. persons who carry the dead to the grave; mutes, etc. So called from the corbillards, or coches d'eau, which went from Paris to Corbeil with the dead bodies of those who died in the 16th century of a fatal epidemic. "Jai lu quelque part que ce coche [the Gorbillard] servit, sous Henri IV., a transporter des morts, victimes d'une epidémie de Paris à Corbeil. Le nom de Corbillard resta depuis aux voitures funebres."- Alf. Bonnardot. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Usage Frequency: CORBEAUX

"CORBEAUX" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CORBEAUX" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Anagrams: CORBEAUX

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-o-r-u-x"
	-2 letters: boxcar, coaxer, rubace.
	-3 letters: acerb, beaux, borax, boxer, brace, caber, carbo, carex, carob, cobra, coxae, cuber, exurb, ocrea.
	-4 letters: acre, aero, arco, bare, bear, beau, boar, bora, bore, brae, bura, carb, care, cero, coax, core, coxa, crab, crux, cube, curb, cure, eaux, ecru, euro, orca, race, robe, roue, roux, rube, urea.
	-5 letters: abo, ace.
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