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  • According to this explanation, copacetic came from the Creole French word coupersètique, which meant

    The WELL: West L.A. Fadeaway Robert Hunter 2006

  • ‘Ye’ve been fighting again, Dandy, wi’ some o’ the Bewcastle horse-coupers!

    Chapter XXIV 1917

  • And here was gathered a motley crowd; bespangled tumblers and acrobats, dark-browed gipsy fortune-tellers and horse-coupers, thimble-riggers, showmen, itinerant musicians, -- all those nomads who are to be found on every race-course, fair, and village green, when the world goes a-holiday making.

    The Amateur Gentleman Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • For a parallel to these transactions one must read a police report of the doings of a "long firm" or of a set of horse-coupers; yet Eginhard seems to be aware of nothing, but that he has been rather badly used by his friend Hildoin, and the "nequissimus nebulo" Hunus.

    Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • For a parallel to these transactions one must read a police report of the doings of a "long firm" or of a set of horse-coupers; yet Eginhard seems to be aware of nothing, but that he has been rather badly used by his friend Hildoin, and the "nequissimus nebulo" Hunus.

    Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • 'Ye've been fighting again, Dandie, wi' some o 'the Bewcastle horse-coupers!

    Guy Mannering — Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • I can understand that our boy is unhappy, and that he does not get strength, and that he is doing no good here, in Castlewood, or moping at the taverns and court-houses with horse-coupers and idle company,” grumbled Mountain in reply to her patroness; and, in truth, the dependant was right.

    The Virginians 2006

  • I can understand that our boy is unhappy, and that he does not get strength, and that he is doing no good here, in Castlewood, or moping at the taverns and court-houses with horse-coupers and idle company, "grumbled

    The Virginians William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • ‘Ye’ve been fighting again, Dandie, wi’ some o’ the Bewcastle horse-coupers!

    Guy Mannering 1815

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