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Definition of Cotqueans
1. cotquean [n] - See also: cotquean
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cotqueans
Literary usage of Cotqueans
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1812)
"... cotqueans !) and, curiously enough, in- support of this chimera, he refers to
a passage in Hall's Satires, (Book IV. Sat. 4.) where the word is applied, ..."
2. A Select Collection of Old Plays: In Twelve Volumes ; with Additional Notes by Isaac Reed, Robert Dodsley, Octavius Gilchrist, John Payne Collier (1825)
"I cau- not abide these 3i apron husbands; such cotqueans: you. overdo your things,
they become you scurvily. Master Gallipot. ..."
3. The Southern Review by Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Methodist Episcopal Church, South (1871)
"In 1804, that most ridiculous of all the petty he-cotqueans who have ever piddled
about on the fringes of science, Dr. Samuel L. Mitchell, gravely proposed ..."
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