Coz vs Coq - What's the difference?
coz | coq |
(informal) cousin (usually as a term of address).
A trimming of cock feathers on a woman's hat.
* 1897 , Ladies' home journal: Volume 15
* 1921 , Millinery trade review: Volume 46
* 2010 , Deborah Davis, Party of the Century
As a pronoun coz
is which.As a proper noun coq is
coquihalla.coz
English
Etymology 1
Noun
- "Content thee, gentle coz, let him alone" Romeo & Juliet Act I Scene 5
Etymology 2
Alternative forms
* ’cause * cos (informal )coq
English
Noun
(en noun)- with a flat Tarn crown of heliotrope velvet, a drapery under the brim, and two flat coq feathers.
- A smart all-black model has just arrived from Jeanne Due. It is turban-trimmed with black coq which forms a bow drape.
- It was the Spanish rooster, the bird that produced coq' feathers, that sacrificed the most plumage. ' Coqs , the rooster's long, curved, and iridescent tail feathers, were plucked from the bird to trim hats or, in this case, masks.
