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UK
/kˈɒs/
]
[ US /ˈkɔs/ ]
[ US /ˈkɔs/ ]
NOUN
- (in India) a unit of length having different values in different localities
How To Use coss In A Sentence
- He wor nobbut tryin his best to catch a blue-bottle-fly, an it went into th 'winder whear be couldn't raik it, soa he sammed up a teacup an flang it at it, -- nivver thinkin owt abaat th' winder, becoss he knew ha tha hated sich things buzzin abaat thi heead; but whativver that child does it seems to be wrang. Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect
- The paintings of the Post-Impressionists, including Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, which formerly hung in the claustrophobic, columned Bellechasse gallery, are cosseted now one floor below in small, elegant, midnight-blue galleries dedicated to the late scholar Françoise Cachin, who served as the museum's first director. New Visions Arrive at the Orsay
- Since Christiane's doctor has warned her son that she must never experience any more shocks, Alex cossets his mother in their apartment.
- Each evening the horses were bedded down, fed, watered, cosseted and crooned at.
- Council was incorporated by Labbe and Cossart in their collection of the Acts of councils; that of the works of St. John Climacus, published in 1614, was reprinted by Migne in his Greek patrology The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
- Her early life was cosseted by her immense riches. Times, Sunday Times
- The pickled mustard tuber, which is produced by pickling the stem mustard (Brassica juncea coss var tnmida Tsen et Lee) in salt solution, is an indigenous Chinese fermented vegetable product.
- The time has come to don that cossie and get active for a great cause.
- He's a Cossack, who rose to command a hussar regiment in the army, won the Tsar's special favour, and retired here, away from his own tribal land. The Sky Writer
- Now I would rather a player was cosseted than pummelled. Times, Sunday Times