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Costlewe   Listen
adjective
Costlewe  adj.  Costly. (Obs.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Costlewe" Quotes from Famous Books



... descanted on the "moche superfluitee," and "wast of cloth in vanitee," as well as "the disordinate scantnesse." In the spirit of the good old times, he calculates "the coste of the embrouding or embroidering; endenting or barring; ounding or wavy; paling or imitating pales; and winding or bending; the costlewe furring in the gounes; so much pounsoning of chesel to maken holes (that is, punched with a bodkin); so moche dagging of sheres (cutting into slips); with the superfluitee in length of the gounes trailing ...
— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli



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