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18th-c. poet William
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cowper
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Cowper (pronounced Cowper or Cooper depending on family) is a surname of several persons: Austen Cowper (1885–1960), cricketer Bob Cowper (born 1940), Australian cricketer Charles Cowper (1807–1875), Australian politician Douglas Cowper (1817-1839), British ...
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n. (context obsolete English) A cooper.
Usage examples of cowper.
A marriage certificate, drawn up in officialese by Howard Goldstein, a Teller law student, was prepared for the Baxters and signed by Cowper, the couple themselves, and Rod and Caroline as witnesses.
Prints of great-uncles, famed for their prowess in the East, hung above Chinese teapots, whose sides were riveted by little gold stitches, and the precious teapots, again, stood upon bookcases containing the complete works of William Cowper and Sir Walter Scott.
Lady Cowper looking hagged and frightened: I don’t wonder at it, and shall shed no tears!
They were next conveyed by water from the Tower to Westminster Hall, and being brought into the court, presided over by Lord Chancellor Cowper, as Lord High Steward, received sentence of death.
At all events with Cowper lurking somewhere on the far side of the yews, any further attempt by Johnny to get down into the vault was quite out of the question.