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costa

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Costa \Cos"ta\ (k[o^]s"t[.a]), n. [L., rib. See Coast .] (Anat.) A rib of an animal or a human being. (Bot.) A rib or vein of a leaf, especially the midrib. (Zo["o]l.) The anterior rib in the wing of an insect. One of the riblike longitudinal ridges on ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Spanish costa "coast," from same Latin source as English coast (n.). Used in Britain from 1960s in jocular formations ( costa geriatrica , costa del crime , etc.) in imitation of the names of Spanish tourist destinations.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Costa may refer to: Costa (surname) , including origin of the name and people sharing the surname Costa, scientific term, from Latin costa " rib " (plural costae ) Costa (botany) , the central strand of a bryophyte leaf or thallus Costa (coral) , a stony ...

Usage examples of costa.

When she was this age, Beatrice Costa had pledged herself to Marty Anaheim and nothing after was ever the same.

Kelian was residing in the unknown and inaccessible Bodarks, not on Park Avenue in New York or some exotic hideaway in Costa Rica.

Costa was not unlikely the real founder, or, at the least, the strongest influencer of the Bolognese school.

Her husband, Nicky Brompton, heir to a dukedom, called himself a farmer and omitted to specify that the estates on whose income his family was maintained comprised three thousand arable acres in Gloucestershire and East Anglia, a hundred times as much in Costa Rica with two gold mines beneath, and a district of London where luxury apartments leased by lesser millionaires rubbed buttresses with i92os model tenements built by Brompton Trust.

Costa had met with many misfortunes, as he told Casanova, and had himself been defrauded.

And for that, we need to get them out into the open in an artillery kill zone, trap them there, kill them there, then race to liberate Chiriqui and that tip of Costa Rica and plug the road in from the rest of Costa Rica.

Sumatran, Brazilian, Columbian, Nicaraguan, Costa Rican, Ecuadorean, Madagascar, Jamaican .

Desarmoises, my party at Choisi, my trust in Costa, my union with the Renaud, and worse than all, my folly in letting myself play at faro at a place where the knavery of the gamesters is renowned all over Europe, followed one another in fatal succession.

Costa watched Xavier carefully, watched him turn to Giorgi and measure his words before speaking.

In fact, they were instead associated with the Kangs and the da Costas, both houses that were hereditary enemies of the Conrads.

Vernon was one such child, growing up in the Orangewood district at the south end of New Costa.

Madison Square Garden, with Regis Philbin performing the ceremony and Bob Costas conducting the postcoital interview?

Port Costa two days after Presley had left Bonneville and the ranches and made her way up to San Francisco, anchoring in the stream off the City front.

COSTAS: The problem on television is that almost everything is reduced to sound bites or quick segments and has to be drawn in primary colors.

In due timeand not overmuch time, considering the snaillike creep of progress among the Cuban bureaucracy, not to mention the vagaries of sea-borne communication and the exceeding delicacy of treating with such sworn enemies as the European interloping, excommunicant trespassers on lands that Rome had long ago given solely to Spanish-Moorish keepinga guarda costa from Cuba, an armed sloop, had arrived in the basin below El Castillo de San Diego de Boca Osa with a message from the Governor of the Indies noting that neither the Norse, the French, the Irish, nor the Portuguese would any of them admit to knowledge of this dreadful fire-arming and training of the savage indios .