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Word of the Day for Monday, February 28, 2011cosset \KOSS-it\, verb: 1. To treat as a pet; to treat with excessive indulgence; to pamper. noun: Sumner's parents, for instance, were routinely attended by butlers, maids, coachmen and grooms while little Sumner and his sister, Emily, were pampered and cosseted from infancy by nurserymaids and governesses. Assunta played a larger role in the lives of her children, whom she cosseted and cared for as best she could. In these two years, Adolf lived a life of parasitic idleness -- funded, provided for, looked after, and cosseted by a doting mother, with his own room in the comfortable flat in the Humboldtstrasse in Linz, which the family had moved into in June 1905. Cosset comes from the noun cosset, "a pet lamb." | |||||||||
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  When is the next leap year, and what is the opposite of a leap year called?February 29th happens every four years and is known as a modern leap day (as opposed to the Medieval leap day: February 24th) or leap year. While the next intercalary year is a solar rotation away (not till 2012), it never hurts to be prepared with origin and precise meaning of the term.� The origin for... | |||||||||
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