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cosseting en · NOUN
Meanings
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The act by which somebody is cosseted or pampered.
It was decided that she should go for a week or two to Rose Lodge to regain her strength, and submit to the welcome cossetings of her mother and grandmother.
1966, Miss Read, The Market Square:As Guy de Jonquières has noted, Singapore’s success owes more to the fact that it is a “meticulously planned economy” with “handholding and cosseting” of overseas investors by “powerful, eager to please bureaucrats”.
2019 December 17, Howard Davies, “Will the UK really turn into 'Singapore-on-Thames' after Brexit?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
Forms
cosseting en · VERB
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(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of cosset