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語源 1

From Arabic قَاصِد (qāṣid, “courier”).

別の表記

• cosset

名詞

cossid (plural cossids)

1. (Anglo-Indian) A courier or messenger.
   • 1834, “News from Candahar”, in Accounts and Papers, 11.XL:

     On the 28th April a cossid arrived here from the Sirdars of Candahar, with letters from Dost Mahomed Khan, and Nawab Jubbar Khan.

   • 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 221:

     As elsewhere, contact was maintained by means of fleet-footed messengers, known as cossids, who took their lives in their hands running the gauntlet with secret despatches concealed on them.

語源 2

名詞

cossid (plural cossids)

1. (zoology, entomology) Any moth of the family Cossidae of carpenter miller moths.

アナグラム

• DOCSIS, discos