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- proper noun A
botanical plant nameauthor abbreviation forbotanist Auguste Henri Cornut de Coincy (1837-1903).
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Examples
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At Coincy, on the 3d and 4th of September, they emptied the cellars and sacked the empty houses and committed outrages on several women in the village.
The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 Various
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Jordan [497] cites numerous instances of such use from the works of Alanus ab Insulis [498] (Alain de Lille), Gautier de Coincy (1177-1236), and others.
The Hindu-Arabic Numerals David Eugene Smith 1902
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Coincy, being a priest and a prior, could take liberties which we cannot or ought not to take.
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878
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Aucassins and the devils of Gaultier de Coincy foresaw her danger.
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878
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"Les Juifs dans les Miracles de Gautier de Coincy."
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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