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Cosset   /kˈɑsət/   Listen
verb
Cosset  v. t.  To treat as a pet; to fondle. "She was cosseted and posseted and prayed over and made much of."



noun
Cosset  n.  A lamb reared without the aid of the dam. Hence: A pet, in general.






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"Cosset" Quotes from Famous Books



... turned away without a word, and ran falteringly, as if she could not see for tears, across the field; and there was a white lamb trotting after her. It had appeared from somewhere in the fields, and Jerome had not noticed it. He remembered hearing that Lucina Merritt had a cosset lamb that followed her everywhere. "Has everything," he muttered—"lambs an' everything. Don't want your ...
— Jerome, A Poor Man - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

... and heard in Wyoming might have been the "chuck" of my native hills. The eagle is an eagle the world over. When I was a boy I saw, one autumn day, an eagle descend with extended talons upon the backs of a herd of young cattle that were accompanied by a cosset-sheep and were feeding upon a high hill. The object of the eagle seemed to be to separate the one sheep from the cattle, or to frighten them all into breaking their necks in trying to escape him. But neither result did he achieve. In ...
— Ways of Nature • John Burroughs

... the very highest point in the whole plain, called Beacon Hill. The soldiers measure only 252 feet in a day, so it will take them a good while to measure the whole seven miles. While we were there Col. Hall (Colby's successor) and Yolland and Cosset came.'" ...
— Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy • George Biddell Airy

... window-frame and began to talk of his brother, the sailor. Klimov paid no more attention to him and thought in agony of his soft, comfortable bed, of the bottle of cold water, of his sister Katy, who knew so well how to tuck him up and cosset him. He even smiled when there flashed across his mind his soldier-servant Pavel, taking off his heavy, close-fitting boots and putting water on the table. It seemed to him that he would only have to lie on his bed and drink some water and his nightmare ...
— The House with the Mezzanine and Other Stories • Anton Tchekoff



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