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 Cosmop’olite (4 syl.).Cos’tard. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Cos’set.
 
A house pet. Applied to a pet lamb brought up in the house; any pet. (Anglo-Saxon, cot-seat, cottage-dweller; German, kossat.)   1
 


 Cosmop’olite (4 syl.).Cos’tard. 

 
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