cosier

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noun

A cobbler.

Scrabble 8

Meanings

cosier1

adjective
  1. comparativecomparative form of cosy: more cosy

cosier2

nouncosier (plural cosiers)

plural cosiers

  1. obsoleteA cobbler.

    Do you make an alehouse of my lady’s house, that you squeak out your coziers' catches without any mitigation or remorse of voice?

    c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)

Origin

Compare Old French coussier (“maker of mattresses”), or couseor (“tailor”).

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