carcassa

Borrowed from Italian carcassa.

carcassa f (plural carcasses)

1. carcass

Likely from carcasso, obsolete variant of turcasso (“quiver”). Compare the now obsolete “bomb” sense.

• IPA^(key): /karˈkas.sa/
• Rhymes: -assa
• Hyphenation: car‧càs‧sa

carcassa f (plural carcasse)

1. carcass
2. (by extension) hulk, shell
3. (by extension) framework, skeleton
4. (obsolete) a kind of bomb made of an iron framing covered with cloth, filled with flammable materials

   Hypernym: bomba

• carcassa in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana