corbeau
Etymology
From French Corbeau.
corbeau means A surname from French. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 95 out of 100.
name
- A surname from French.
noun
- The black vulture, Coragyps atratus.“The local corbeaux, black, heavy, hunched, hopped about the slopes of rubbish; the children of the shanty town ran between the traffic on the rubbish-strewn highway to get to the dump.”
- A man who carts away the dead plague victims.“By 8 August, it was necessary to conscript beggars to bury the dead because the corbeaux, special bearers of plague-striken corpses, no longer sufficed for the task.”
- A very dark shade of green, almost black.