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† ˈcozier Obs.
Also 7 coiziar.
[ad. OF. cousere seamster, tailor, accus. couseor, -eur, f. coudre, cousant to sew; cf. Sp. coser to sew.]
A cobbler.
1532in Weaver Wells Wills (1890) 184 John Lye, cosyer, of Wellington. 1599Minsheu Sp. Dict. 11, A Cosier or cobler, remendón. 1601Shakes. Twel. N. ii. iii. 97 Ye squeak out your Coziers Catches without any mitigation or remorse of voice. 1605R. Armin Foole upon F. (1880) 22 How this leane Foole Leonard..was reuenged of one that clapt coiziars waxe to his head. 1658Phillips, Cosier (old word), a Botcher, called also a Sowter. [Hence in later Dicts., some of which erroneously have ‘A tailor who botches his work’.] |