any pirate from the Barbary Coast.
a pirate or privateer operating in the Mediterranean. The most famous corsairs were those based on the Barbary Coast of North Africa who were authorized by their governments to attack the merchant shipping of Christian countries.
a pirate along the Barbary coast
a swift pirate ship (often operating with official sanction)
a French seaman or privateer who sailed mostly in the South Mediterranean Sea
Corsair (Major Christopher Summers, USAF) is a fictional comic book character in the Marvel Comics universe. He leads the spacefaring team the Starjammers and is best known as the father of X-Men superheroes Cyclops, Havok and Vulcan. He first appeared in X-Men #104, and was created by Chris Claremont and Dave Cockrum.
Corsair is a fantasy novel written by Chris Bunch and published in 2001. It features Gareth Radnor, an honorable young man whose parents were slaughtered by Linyati slavers, found himself to became a captain of a private ship Steadfast which preys on slave ships and frees the human cargo. Therefore he started a battle with the Linyati sladers, who would destroy him at any price.