AtD translation: Oriental knife corps

[Mike Jing]

Thanks for the reply, Joseph.


On Fri, Sep 25, 2026 at 9:08 AM Joseph Tracy <coypoet at mailfence.com> wrote:

> I think it means the 'oriental' group of cooks, in this case serving as
> slicers of meats/fish ( cooks wear toques). It could be cooks dressed in
> dark exotic oriental looking  robes offset by their white caps and white
> teeth.  As far as I could find there is no other meaning for corps but 1) a military
> grouping or 2)a body of persons acting together or associated under common
> direction.
> On 9/24/26 3:24 PM, Mike Jing wrote:
>
> P901.5-14   Later on, tonight at the Overlunch manor, it was the Moon which
> had found him, among these tailcoated and Vionnet-gowned guests drifting
> the pavilioned gardens, reflected in the obsidian smoothness of the
> ornamental lake, calling down from the sky, again, “It’s me. . . . It’s me
> . . .” as the giant crayfish clattered slowly out of the bathing-pool, and
> the dog began to bay from some distant part of the grounds, and here came
> the strong and beaming Moon herself, just above a bared and passing
> shoulder, beaming down on these privileged at play, with their
> circus-striped tents, their lamps radiantly lensed from within fantastic
> grottoes of ice, their Oriental knife corps with clever white accents at
> toques and teeth.
>
> What's the "Oriental knife corps" exactly?
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