querpo
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]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.