What's the difference between cordage and corsage?

Cordage


Definition:

  • (n.) Ropes or cords, collectively; hence, anything made of rope or cord, as those parts of the rigging of a ship which consist of ropes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An increase was found during endocarditis in the number of patients with holosystolic murmurs (30.7% cases) versus those with click-telesystolic murmur, the appearance in 41.15% of the cases of valvular vegetations at the Echo examination, and in 15.38% cases of ruptures of cordages.
  • (2) In the ill female workers of that cordage factory, the microclimate, the needle shaped hemp dust, greasy skin, bad working conditions and had hygiene played an important part.
  • (3) As a rule, an oil acne occurs rather seldom in the cordage industry.

Corsage


Definition:

  • (n.) The waist or bodice of a lady's dress; as, a low corsage.
  • (n.) a flower or small arrangement of flowers worn by a person as a personal ornament. Typically worn by women on special occasions (as, at a ball or an anniversary celebration), a corsage may be worn pinned to the chest, or tied to the wrist. It is usually larger or more elaborate than a boutonniere.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There's a bridal gown for three- to six-year-olds, for instance, complete with a fake corsage.
  • (2) Not a single flower, corsage style, but an oval row, like a bower.
  • (3) I wore a new skirt and sweater set with a wrist corsage Mark bought me.
  • (4) Her professional stock-in-trade as a stage and television actress was a voice that could have made a regimental sergeant major tremble and a figure, suggesting an ample corsage filled with concrete, that wordlessly and hilariously forbade the taking of liberties.

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