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A house pet. Applied to a pet lamb brought up in the house; any pet. (Anglo-Saxon, cot-seat, cottage-dweller; German, kossat.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.