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Definition of Cosseting
1. cosset [v] - See also: cosset
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cosseting
Literary usage of Cosseting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Moral Culture of Infancy, and Kindergarten Guide ...: By Mrs. Horace Mann by Mary Tyler Peabody Mann, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (1870)
"Hence the most characteristic work of Froebel is " The Mother's Cosseting Songs."
In this imperfect world, mothers are not always true to ideal motherhood ..."
2. Guide to the Kindergarten and Intermediate Class by Mary Tyler Peabody Mann, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (1877)
"Hence the most characteristic work of Froebel is "The Mother's Cosseting Songs."
In this imperfect world, mothers are not always true to ideal motherhood ..."
3. A Bachelor's Establishment =: (Un Ménage de Garçon) by Honoré de Balzac (1896)
"Instead of cosseting you, she makes you trot round like her footman—and that
again is natural enough; she would like to see you six feet under the daisies ..."
4. The Maine Journal of Education (1872)
"Froebel's " Mother Cosseting Songs" (Continued.) 8. Fundamental Forms. 9. Reading.
The price is moderate, only $1.00. ARITHMETICAL PROBLEMS; Arranged for ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1884)
"... tinkering, and cosseting, even to the end of time. Thanks to such fostering
care, the department of agriculture continues to live its life ; and it is ..."
6. The Atlantic Monthly by Making of America Project (1865)
"She is the very soul of impartiality ; but there is no cosseting. Sick or well,
chick must run with the others, or be left behind. ..."
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