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单词 cossid
释义

cossid

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkɒsɪd/

Etymology 1

From Arabic قَاصِد (qāṣid, courier).

Noun

cossid (plural cossids)

  1. (Anglo-Indian) A courier or messenger.
    • 1834, ‘News from Candahar’, Accounts and Papers, 11.XL:
      On the 28th April a cossid arrived here from the Sirdars of Candahar, with letters from Dost Mahomed Khan, and Nawab Jubbar Khan.
    • 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game (Folio Society 2010), page 221:
      As elsewhere, contact was maintained by means of fleet-footed messengers, known as cossids, who took their lives in their hands running the gauntlet with secret despatches concealed on them.

Noun

cossid (plural cossids)

  1. (zoology, entomology) Any moth of the family Cossidae.

Anagrams

  • DOCSIS, discos
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