Querpo

The horse will no longer be tortured for the amusement of man; but fellow bipeds, equipped _in querpo_, will start for the prize, and, with the fleetness of a North-American Indian, bound along the lists, amid the acclamations and cheers of admiring multitudes. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

[81] _In querpo_ is a corruption from the Spanish word _cuérpo_. ❋ John Earle (N/A)

Is one of the makings up of a gentleman as well as his clothes, and somewhat in the same nature, for he is cast behind his master as fashionably as his sword and cloak are, and he is but _in querpo_ [81] without him. ❋ John Earle (N/A)

If men will only use religion to cover their unrighteousness, I had rather they would put off their cloaks, and be knaves in querpo, that every body may know them, than that they should go like highwaymen in vizards and disguises, only that they may rob honest men the more securely. ❋ 1630-1694 (1820)

Well enough, add but a Harlequin and Scaramouch, and I shall mount in querpo. ❋ Unknown (1677)

-- I would fain see him walk in querpo, like a cased rabbit, without his holy fur upon his back, that the world may once behold the inside of a friar. ❋ John Dryden (1665)

_ Well enough, add but a _Harlequin_ and _Scaramouch_, and I shall mount in querpo. ❋ Aphra Behn (1664)

On the platform also stands his attendant, a figure dressed in the diamonded motley of Harlequin.p. 126. _in querpo. ❋ Aphra Behn (1664)

a Coward in querpo, a walking Bunch of Garlick, a pickl'd Pilchard! abuse the noble Captain, and bear it off in State, like a Christmas ❋ Aphra Behn (1664)

"Dr. Johnson explains querpo, which he says is corrupted from cuerpo ❋ John Earle (N/A)