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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

The inner or body garments taken together. See

Dryden.

Noun.

[L. corpus.]

A waistcoat or garment close to the body.

querpo ‎(uncountable)

(obsolete) The inner or body garments; underwear.
- 1647, Beaumont and Fletcher, Loves Cure:
  Boy: my Cloake, and Rapier; it fits not a Gentleman of my ranck, to walke the streets in Querpo.
- 1681, John Dryden, The Spanish fryar
  I would fain see him walk in querpo, like a cased rabbet, without his holy furr upon his back, that the world may once behold the inside of a fryar.