Lexicographical Neighbors of Coshery
Literary usage of Coshery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Minor Poets of the Caroline Period by George Saintsbury (1906)
"Everybody knows ;IV and 'kerne,' though I did not know that the latter ate shamrocks.
'coshery' ,•• used. Dot as commonly of non-paying ..."
2. The Topographer and Genealogist by John Gough Nichols (1858)
"coshery is a charge of the Erie's people for lodging 40, 60, or 100 together
under one roofe. ... the time he has his people in coshery. ..."
3. On the History, Position, and Treatment of the Public Records of Ireland by John Thomas Gilbert (1864)
"coshery," the composition paid of old in Ireland for exemption from supplying
victuals to a chieftain and his followers, is lucidly explained as follows:— ..."
4. A Sketch of the History of Taxes in England from the Earliest Times to the by Stephen Dowell (1876)
"... being free quarters on the subject for the chief's soldiers or
gallowglasses; 'coshery,' free quarters on the subject for the chief for a limited
time; ..."
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