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coster en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping) Clipping of costermonger.
    • It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one. 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
  2. (obsolete) A costard: a large apple good for cooking; any apple.
  3. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Acraea.

Forms

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costers Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

costerdom · tawny coster