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coster¹

noun costers

  1. abbreviation, clipping Clipping of costermonger It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.
  2. obsolete A costard: a large apple good for cooking; any apple.
  3. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Acraea.

Coster²

proper noun Costers

  1. A surname.

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@misc{coster_2026,
  title = {coster},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/coster},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}