coistrel

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The word is also confused with "coistrel" = "groom", "varlet"; cf. Twelfth Night I iii 37} kind > nature; disposition; social class 5 A pleasing vein of glory vain did find glory vain > {Vainglory; "glory" on its own = "boastful spirit".

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  • The word is also confused with "coistrel" = "groom", "varlet"; cf. Twelfth Night I iii 37} kind > nature; disposition; social class 5 A pleasing vein of glory vain did find glory vain > {Vainglory; "glory" on its own = "boastful spirit". —  The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
  • He was himself a lord of language and had made himself a coistrel gentleman and he had written —  Ulysses
 

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