| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | cos·set |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  k s  t |
| TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: cos·set·ed, cos·set·ing, cos·sets
To pamper. | | NOUN: | A pet, especially a pet lamb. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Possibly from Anglo-Norman coscet, pet lamb, from Middle English cotsete, cottage-dweller, from Old English cots ta : cot, cottage + sta, -ste, inhabitant; see sed- in Appendix I.
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