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CORSAIR (through the Fr. from the Med. Lat. cursarius, a pirate; cursus, or cursa, from currere, to run, being Late Latin for a plundering foray)

This article appears in Volume V07, Page 199 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: COR-CRE
CORSAIR (through the Fr. from the Med. Lat. cursarius, a pirate; cursus, or cursa, from currere, to run, being Late Latin for a plundering foray) , the name given by the Mediterranean peoples to the privateers of the
Barbary
 
coast
  who plundered the
shipping
  of
Christian
  nations; they were not strictly pirates, as they were commissioned by their respective governments, but the word came to be synonymous, in
English
 , with " pirate." The
French
  word corsaire is still used for "
privateer
 ," and guerre de course is applied to the use in
naval
  warfare of " commerce-destroyers." (See PIRATE,
BARBARY
  PIRATES and
PRIVATEER
 .)


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