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The men weare vpon their heades shallowe copin tackes, comming but behinde with a taile of a handefull and a haulfe long, and as muche in breadth: whiche thei fasten vnder their chinnes, for falling or blowing of, with a couple of strynges of ribbande lace, as we doe our nighte cappes.
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"All these were of costly stones, accordin 'to the measuah of hewed stones, sawed with saws within and without," he muttered, "even from the foundation unto the copin ', and so on the outside toward the great court."
The Way of the Wind Zoe Anderson Norris
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In school language, the word here rendered chum -- _faisant_, or in some schools, _copin_ -- expressed a fraternal sharing of the joys and evils of your childish existence, a community of interests that was fruitful of squabbling and making friends again, a treaty of alliance offensive and defensive.
Louis Lambert Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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The men weare vpon their heades shallowe copin tackes, comming but behinde with a taile of a handefull and a haulfe long, and as muche in breadth: whiche thei fasten vnder their chinnes, for falling or blowing of, with a couple of strynges of ribbande lace, as we doe our nighte cappes.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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* ere chiefly e. r ingenia If conjeclvTd, lliecc being no MS copin of j this book in England, and iiideud very t'i; w any uhcre.
Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Comprizing Biographical Memoirs of William Bowyer ... 1812
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