copesmate

English

cope +‎ -s- +‎ mate

copesmate (plural copesmates)

(obsolete) An associate or companion; a friend; a partner.
- 1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC:
  'Mis-shapen Time, copesmate of ugly Night.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
  Tie thy selfe unto that, whereto thou are subject, but tie not him; he is neither thy companion, nor thy brother, nor thy fellow Citizen, nor thy copesmate.

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