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▪ I. † ˈcostering, n.1 Obs.
[f. coster n.1]
A hanging, a curtain.
1480Wardr. Acc. Edw. IV (1830) 118, Iiij costerings of wool paled rede and blue. Ibid. 144 Tapettes other wise called costeringes. 1488Inv. R. Morton in Archæol. Jrnl. XXXIII. 327 A selur and testur and v costrynges of bokeram.
▪ II. costering, n.2 colloq.|ˈkɒstərɪŋ|
[f. coster + -ing1.]
The occupation of a costermonger.
1851Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 366 For three or four months of the year half of these ‘go to costering’. 1886Hall Caine Son of Hagar iii. xi, Tom started costering first. |