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Meanings of cosey in English

Cozy.

Usage of cosey in English
1
He was so comfortable and cosey and the story-book was so interesting.
Master Sunshine
2
Was there ever any other house with such cosey nooks in it?
Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance
3
This cosey room seems to say, 'We won't force ourselves on you.
Opening a Chestnut Burr
4
It was a cosey room in which the girl found herself-morethan that-luxurious
The Spoilers
5
Several minutes still elapsed, and the cosey quietude of her drawing-room pleased her.
Fruitfulness
6
But here we close the window-shutters, and make ourselves cosey by a coal-fire.
Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 1.
7
The Club house is an old place with low rooms and all cosey.
Elizabeth Visits America
8
But bleak November found no admittance in Mrs. Alford's cosey parlor.
Taken Alive
9
How bright, and warm, and cosey its lamplighted interior would be.
Under the Great Bear
10
It doesn't hurt the towels and it's cosey for the toad.
The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors
11
They had always been her comforters, those wide, shallow, cosey stairs.
The Freelands
12
We'll have a nice, cosey home here a year from to-day.
Eventide / A Series of Tales and Poems
13
Now we will light up, and look cosey when the boys come back.
Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag, Volume 5 / Jimmy's Cruise in the Pinafore, ...
14
At this subsequent interview, the two young women chatted briskly in a cosey corner.
The Law-Breakers and Other Stories
15
But the interior was bewildering to Selma's gaze in its suggestion of cosey comfort.
Unleavened Bread
16
The Fairfield library was a most cosey and attractive room.
Patty in Paris
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