costrel

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A youth, that following with a costrel bore

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  1. noun A flat, pear-shaped drinking vessel with loops for attachment to the belt of the user.

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  • A youth, that following with a costrel bore —  Idylls of the King
  • A youth, that following with a costrel [3] bore —  Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5
  • And, behold, the maiden came back, and a youth with her, bearing on his back a costrel full of good purchased mead, and a quarter of a young bullock. —  The Age of Fable
  • And, behold! the maiden came back, and a youth with her, bearing on his back a costrel full of good purchased mead and a quarter of a young bullock. —  The Mabinogion Vol. 2 (of 3)
  • And, behold! the maiden came back, and a youth with her, bearing on his back a costrel full of good purchased mead, and a quarter of a young bullock. —  The Mabinogion
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  1. Middle English, from Old French costerel, possibly from costier, at the side, from coste, rib, from Latin costa; see kost- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Also costril, from Middle English costrel, costrelle, costril, also costret, costred, a drinlzing-cup or flask (Middle Latin costrellus, costerellum), from Welsh costrel, a cup, flagon.
 

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