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morse.

A clasp or fastening used to fasten a cope in the front, usually decorative.

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Meaning & usage

noun/mɔːs/UK
  1. A clasp or fastening used to fasten a cope in the front, usually decorative.

Where this word comes from

From Middle French mors, from Latin morsus (“bite; clasp”), from mordere (“to bite”).

noun/mɔːs/UK
  1. Synonym of walrus.

    obsolete
Where this word comes from

Uncertain, perhaps ultimately from Proto-Samic *moršë. Compare Russian морж (morž, “walrus”), Sami morša, Finnish mursu (all attested later), and possibly the second element of translingual Rosmarus.

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