cosseted
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cosseted (comparative more cosseted, superlative most cosseted)
- Pampered.
- 2001 March 17, Maya Jaggi, “George and his dragons”, in The Guardian[1]:
- When the Parisian-born George Steiner went to Chicago University after the second world war, he found himself sharing a room with an ex-paratrooper, who stared in disbelief at "a creature so obviously cosseted, sheltered, formally decked out, book-laden, as I was", Steiner recalled.
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The adjective cosseted is frequently written with two T’s: cossetted.
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pampered
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cosseted
- simple past and past participle of cosset