fosset

English

Noun

fosset (plural fossets)

  1. Obsolete form of faucet.
    • William Shakespeare's Coriolanus, ii 1
      You are ambitious for poor knaves' caps and legs; you wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a cause between an orange-wife and a fosset-seller, and then rejourn the controversy of threepence to a second day of audience.

Latin

Verb

fosset

  1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of fossō
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