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Synonyms for coffer

Grammar : Noun

Spell : kaw-fer, kof-er

Phonetic Transcription : ˈkɔ fər, ˈkɒf ər

Définition of coffer

Origin : mid-13c., from Old French cofre "a chest" (12c., Modern French coffre), from Latin cophinus "basket" (see coffin).

noun large box

Example sentences :

How had her body come to be in the coffer, he wondered, when all the others were—gone?
Extract from : « Salvage in Space » by John Stewart Williamson

A fourth time he advanced, trembling, and seized the lid of the coffer.
Extract from : « Salvage in Space » by John Stewart Williamson

So that man packed away all his cattle for him in the coffer.
Extract from : « Russian Fairy Tales » by W. R. S. Ralston

How shall I be able to get all this great herd into so small a coffer?
Extract from : « Russian Fairy Tales » by W. R. S. Ralston

Thus a coffer dam was formed to receive the concrete as shown in Fig. 34.
Extract from : « Concrete Construction » by Halbert P. Gillette

Coffer cut with ledges and catch-holes for a lid, like other sarcophagi.
Extract from : « Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 » by James Y. Simpson

Then he ordered the coffer to be opened, and told her all that had happened.
Extract from : « Europa's Fairy Book » by Joseph Jacobs

For his own coffer he extracted a fiveweight and slipped it into his boot top.
Extract from : « History Repeats » by George Oliver Smith

The old man pressed the little book to his lips and concealed it in his coffer.
Extract from : « The Day of Wrath » by Maurus Jkai

Please you, Mistress, there was nought but that in the coffer.
Extract from : « The King's Daughters » by Emily Sarah Holt

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