† vaws-cornicen.
Obsolete. rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
(See quot. 1688.)
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1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 102/1 Vaws-Cornice, is any small Cornish lying under a great swelling out peece, as under a Planchier, or swelling Friese.
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