fosset

English

Noun

fosset (plural fossets)

1. Obsolete form of faucet.
   • c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

     You are ambitious for poor knaves' caps and legs; you wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a cause between an orange-wife and a fosset-seller, and then rejourn the controversy of threepence to a second day of audience.

Latin

Verb

fosset

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of fossō

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• fossa

Verb

fosset

1. inflection of fosse:
   1. simple past
   2. past participle