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cossie; cozzie
noun- a theatrical costume UK, 1967
- JULIAN: What cossy did they say? MR HORNE: Cossy? JULIAN: Costume. Polari for costume. — Barry Took and Marty Feldman, Round The Horne,
- I knew I’d have to put £6 in the slot for long enough to see her breasts and £9 if the cossie was going to come all the way off. — Kitty Churchill, Thinking of England, p. 187, 1995
- Based on Shaw’s Pygmalion, to which lyricist and composer Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe lent a romantic gloss and opportunities for lots of very nice cossies, My Fair Lady shouldn’t by rights work at all. — Guardian, 22 May 2002
- a swimming costume AUSTRALIA, 1926
- — Jim Ramsay, Cop It Sweet!, p. 25, 1977
- On hot nights before the nor’easter came you changed into your cossie and ran under the sprinkler. — Clive James, Unreliable Memoirs, p. 174, 1980
- Hadn’t I discovered that mouldy old convict cozzie tucked away in Nana’s chest of drawers? — Edna Everage (Barry Humphries), My Gorgeous Life, p. 6, 1989
- [T]hink of those lifeguards with their cossies up their botties! — New York Observer, 17 March 2003
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