Meanings
nounkós (plural kósses or kós)
plural kósses
- alternativeAlternative spelling of coss.
... the distances (computed by marching-time as well as by reference to the Népálese kós of 2⅓ miles each) ... The total distance from Káthmándú to Pekin, according to the Káji, is 1,268½ kós; according to the Chountra, 1,250 kós ...
1857, Brian Houghton Hodgson, Selections from the Records of the Government of Bengal, No. XXVII: Papers Relative to the Colonization, Commerce, Physical Geography, &c., &c., of the Himalaya Mountains and Nepal, pp. 85–86
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