Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Middle English form of
coffer .
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Examples
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Undoubtedly there were ancient MSS. in the 'cofre'.
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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"cofre," which crowns the summit of the mountain Perote.
The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse Mayne Reid 1850
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Una especie de marabú al que daba hospedaje un árabe de los alrededores de Constantina se le ha llevado el cofre y la hija.
Translation 2010
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This done euery man burieth his dead, some in Sepulchres made for the purpose, and other that haue no suche preparacion, in their strongest wall at home in their house, setting vp the cofre ther tabernacle wyse.
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But they that for some offence, or debte of enterest, or suche like, are denied their bewriall, are sette vp at home without any cofre, vntle their successours growyng to abilite canne dischardge their debtes and offences, and honourably bewrie them.
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Those aulters to be ordrely alway couered with two aulter clothes, and garnisshed with the crosse of Christe, or some little cofre of reliques.
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Here were preserved several large chests, and among them _Canynge's cofre_; from which Chatterton assured the world he had obtained the Rowley MSS.; and from which MSS. were carried away and destroyed, but the old chests still remain.
The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 Various
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Thus, on her lips these four lines were full of sparkling gaiety: Un cofre de gran riqueza
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Warwick, had in 1464, "ij old irebound coofres," "j gret olde arke to put in vestments," "j olde arke at the autere ende, j old coofre irebonde having a long lok of the olde facion, and j lasse new coofre having iij loks called the tresory cofre and certain almaries."
Vanishing England 1892
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Thus Chaucer speaks of it as "the piler Elme, the cofre unto careyne,"
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868
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