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English
Noun
cophin (plural cophins)
- Archaic spelling of coffin.
Quotations
Verb
cophin (third-person singular simple present cophins, present participle cophining, simple past and past participle cophined)
- Archaic spelling of coffin.
Anagrams
French
Noun
cophin m (plural cophins)
- Obsolete form of coffin.
1695, Alexandre Morus, Sermons svr les Sections dv Catechisme des Eglises Reformées de France, page 69:Les Pêres de la chair manquent ſouvent de pouvoir , quand ils ne manqueroient pas de ſageſſe, ni de prévoyance : L’huile défaut dans la cruche , & la farine dans le cophin.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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Middle English
Noun
cophin
- Alternative form of coffyn