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Definition of Coistrel
1. a knave [n -S] - See also: knave
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coistrel
Literary usage of Coistrel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"Cp. coistrel, in use in the north country in the sense of a raw, inexperienced
lad (EDD.); 'A coistrel ..."
2. A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1867)
"An uncommon word, known only in the following example, Malcontent, v, 1. 0.
PL, iv, p. 88. coistrel ..."
3. Handlingar (1903)
"... attendant on a knight or man-at-arms' 1492 etc ; coistrel 'a groom, a servant
in charge of the horses of a knight' 1577 (1688 di.: 'a young lad', cf. p. ..."
4. On Transferred Appellations of Human Beings, Chiefly in English and German by Josef Reinius (1903)
"... coistrel 'a groom, a servant in charge of the horses of a knight' 1577 (1688 di.
... knave, base fellow', 1581 + 1783 coistrel (1601 and 1783 'coward'), ..."
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