cophin
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]cophin (plural cophins)
Quotations
[edit]- For quotations using this term, see Citations:cophin.
Verb
[edit]cophin (third-person singular simple present cophins, present participle cophining, simple past and past participle cophined)
Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Noun
[edit]cophin m (plural cophins)
- Obsolete form of coffin.
- 1695, Alexandre Morus, Sermons svr les Sections dv Catechisme des Eglises Reformées de France[1], page 69:
- Les Pêres de la chair manquent ſouvent de pouvoir , quand ils ne manqueroient pas de ſageſſe, ni de prévoyance : L’huile défaut dans la cruche , & la farine dans le cophin.
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Further reading
[edit]- “cophin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]cophin
- Alternative form of coffyn