cosier
English
Etymology 2
Compare Old French coussier (“maker of mattresses”), or couseor (“tailor”).
Noun
cosier (plural cosiers)
- (obsolete) A cobbler.
- 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 606515358, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- Do you make an alehouse of my lady’s house, that you squeak out your coziers' catches without any mitigation or remorse of voice?
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References
- cosier in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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