† coisen.
Obsolete.
Mätzner explains ‘ugly woman, monster’, comparing coisy; Halliwell says: = ‘body’; Pauli: ‘mistress’.
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1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 100 And prively withoute noise He bringeth this foule great coise To his castell in suche a wise That no man might her shape avise.
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