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Definition of Cosherers
1. cosherer [n] - See also: cosherer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cosherers
Literary usage of Cosherers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ireland: Industrial, Political, and Social by John Nicholas Murphy (1870)
"An Act for the suppressing of Cosherers and idle wanderers. ' Irish Statutes,' vol.
ii., p. 169. Coigny is man's meat, as livery is horse-meat. ..."
2. Ireland in 1868, the Battle-field for English Party Strife: Its Grievances by Gerald Fitzgibbon (1868)
"16, entitled "an Act for suppressing of cosherers and wanderers," This Act recites
that these cosherers and wanderers were young gentlemen that had little ..."
3. The Montgomery Manuscripts: (1603-1706) by William Montgomery, George Hill (1869)
"These hapless cosherers and wanderers generally carried their ancient ... Again,
in the year 1707, came another Act to deal with such cosherers as were ..."
4. The Midland Septs and the Pale: An Account of the Early Septs and Later by Francis Ryan Montgomery Hitchcock (1908)
"Eng.) The same writer says, " Commissioners were scattered profusely among idle
cosherers, who claimed to be descended from good Irish families. ..."
5. A History of the Irish Poor Law: In Connexion with the Condition of the People by George Nicholls (1856)
"These " cosherers" are apparently the same class of persons described by Spenser
as infesting the country half a century before,*1 too proud to beg, ..."
6. The History of England from the Accession of James II by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1907)
"Commissions were scattered profusely among idle cosherers who claimed to be
descended from good Irish families. Vet even thus the supply of captains and ..."
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