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 Cos’miel (3 syl.).Cos’set. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Cosmop’olite (4 syl.).
 
A citizen of the world. One who has no partiality to any one country as his abiding-place; one who looks on the whole world with “an equal eye.” (Greek, cosmospoli’ts.)   1
 


 Cos’miel (3 syl.).Cos’set. 

 
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