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What (who) is corsair - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Corsairs; Corsair ship; Corsair (disambiguation); Corsair (novel); The Corsair (newspaper)
corsair
n.
Pirate, buccaneer, picaroon, sea-rover, sea-robber.
Corsair
·noun A piratical vessel.
II. Corsair ·add. ·noun A Californian market fish (Sebastichthys rosaceus).
III. Corsair ·noun A pirate; one who cruises about without authorization from any government, to seize booty on sea or land.
corsair
[k?:'s?:, 'k?:s?:]
¦ noun archaic a pirate.
?historical a privateer, especially one operating along the southern shore of the Mediterranean.
Origin
C16: from Fr. corsaire, from med. L. cursarius, from cursus 'a raid, plunder', special use of L. cursus 'course', from currere 'to run'.
Wikipedia
Corsair
A corsair is a privateer or pirate, especially:
- Barbary corsair, Ottoman and Berber pirates and privateers operating from North Africa
- French corsairs, privateers operating on behalf of the French crown
Corsair may also refer to:
Examples of use of corsair
1. From July 1'83 to March 1''4, he was chairman of Corsair Marine, Inc.
2. Nobody else was on board the A–7 Corsair jet and there were no injuries on the ground.
3. Among them was Dragut, the most feared corsair of his day, whose skill and dash had served the Sultan well.
4. Corsair and a British Spitfire whose engine cowling features a snarling shark‘s mouth that he proudly displays to Gyani.
5. Morgan returned to the high seas in The Fighting Corsair (1'66), a European swashbuckler shot in Italian.