Meanings
cosier1
cosier2
plural cosiers
- 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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cosier. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cosier
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