corps-à-corps
French edit
Etymology edit
Nominalized use of corps à corps.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
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 edit
- “corps-à-corps”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.