copesmate

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noun

An associate or companion; a friend; a partner.

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Meanings

nouncopesmate (plural copesmates)

plural copesmates

  1. obsoleteAn associate or companion; a friend; a partner.

    'Mis-shapen Time, copesmate of ugly Night.

    1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC
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    Tie thy selfe unto that, whereto thou are subject, but tie not him; he is neither thy companion, nor thy brother, nor thy fellow Citizen, nor thy copesmate.

    1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

Origin

From cope + -s- + mate.

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Chicago

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