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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
cosset/ˈkɒsɪt/

▶verb (cossets, cosseting, cosseted) care for and protect in an overindulgent way.

– origin C16 (as n. denoting a lamb brought up by hand, later a spoiled child): prob. from Anglo-Norman Fr. coscet ‘cottager’, from OE cotsǣta ‘cottar’.

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