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Coigny   Listen
noun
Coigny, Coigne  n.  The practice of quartering one's self as landlord on a tenant; a quartering of one's self on anybody. (Ireland)






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"Coigny" Quotes from Famous Books



... particular individual, but may be supposed to be merely an expression of the taste of the time. They are of the seventeenth century, when the Ravalet had been succeeded by the Franquetot family, who have since taken the name of Coigny. Their arms, with several others, are in the little boudoir in one of the towers, called the Blue Chamber. Its walls are distempered blue, and the coverlet and hangings of the bed, with all the decorations of the room, are of the same colour. Having admired ...
— Brittany & Its Byways • Fanny Bury Palliser



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