cort.

abbreviation for

1. (in prescriptions) the bark.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cort.¹

From the Latin word cortex

Example Sentences

After accepting the award from presenters Kiefer Sutherland and Joely Richardson, Cort spoke for the producers and gave a shoutout to the film’s nominated director, Joe Sargent, who was in the audience and already had four Emmys for projects spanning from 1973 to 1992.

From Los Angeles Times

Cort noted that Sargent’s “courageous heart infuses every frame of our film.”

From Los Angeles Times

Two years before he made his “I Have a Dream” speech at the March on Washington in 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. attended the 100th performance of “Purlie Victorious” at the Cort Theater on Broadway.

From New York Times

Ossie Davis’s satirical play “Purlie Victorious” opened at the Cort Theater in September 1961 with Davis as the charismatic preacher Purlie Victorious Judson and Ruby Dee, his artistic collaborator and wife, playing Purlie’s green but soon-to-be-wise sidekick, Lutiebelle Gussie Mae Jenkins.

From New York Times

Bud Cort, fresh from “Harold and Maude,” even offered up a kind, clammy handshake.

From New York Times