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▪ I. † ˈcoster1 Obs.
Also 5 costur(e, costere, coostre, costerde.
[a. AF. coster = OF. costier side, also ‘piece of stuff placed on the side (e.g. of an altar)’, f. coste side. A med. (Anglo) L. costera is found.]
A hanging for a bed, the walls of a room, etc. (See also quots. 1844, 1879.)
1385in Dugdale Monast. (1846) VI. 1363 Duo costers panni magni de velvetto. 1424E.E. Wills (1882) 56 Þe costers the which hengen in þe newe chamber. Ibid. 65 A browded bed wiþ þe costures. c1475Sqr. lowe Degre 833 (Mätz.) Your costerdes covered with whyte and blewe, And dyapred with lyles newe. 1482Paston Lett. No. 86. III. 285, I bequeth to Edmund Paston..a fether-bedde..and the costers of worsted that he hath of me. [1844Pugin Gloss. Eccl. Ornament 81 Coster, a name given to hangings for the sides of an altar or choir. 1879Simmons Lay Folk's Mass-bk. Notes 174 Costers or curtains running on rods at the north and south sides of the altar.]
▪ II. coster2 colloq.|ˈkɒstə(r)|
Short for costermonger.
1851Mayhew Lond. Labour (1861) I. 26/1 The costers never steal from one another. 1864F. W. Robinson Mattie I. 135 Bawling costers with barrows. 1878Besant & Rice Celia's Arb. i, A street market, consisting almost entirely of costers' carts and barrows.
b. attrib. and Comb., as coster-boy, coster-ditty, coster-girl, coster-song, etc.
1851Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 35/2 The education of the coster-lads. Ibid. I. 45/1 The story of one coster-girl's life. 1857Kingsley Two Y. Ago xxiv, Laying down the law to a group of coster-boys. 1887Times 3 Dec. 12/3 He and his brethren of the coster fraternity had been driven from pillar to post. 1892Graphic 21 May, Long before the days of Mr. Chevalier and his excellent songs, there was a coster-ditty, which, etc.
▪ III. coster
obs. f. coaster. |