cosset

Like the best of children’s literature, then and now, “Treasure Island” looks to lure its young readers into the adult world, not to cosset them from it.

From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2020

She wonders if there was something in Farquharson, by contrast, that brought out “the maternal in women, our tendency to cosset, to infantilise.”

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 4, 2016

Supporters of scooters say they offer something extremely valuable - freedom, countering the perceived tendency of many risk-averse parents to cosset their children indoors.

From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2015

It is clear from the excellent condition of all our homes that we cosset them.

From The Guardian ● May 25, 2012

Indeed, he said that little Phœbe was much prettier than his finest cosset; besides, she could answer all his questions, and ask him a thousand in return.

From The Rival Crusoes The Ship Wreck also A Voyage to Norway; and The Fisherman's Cottage. by Agnes Strickland

Yet The Man Who Knew Infinity also shows the place as a golden doll’s house that cossets the don he plays, Trinity College maths professor GH Hardy.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 24, 2016

A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses.

From Reuters ● Oct. 27, 2010

No, she calls the Plaza's elegant Edwardian Room, an oasis that cossets the wealthy with candles and linen napkins.

From Time Magazine Archive

My musical nephew there cossets himself up in his room, while I, at his age, was out making my way in the world.

From Edelweiss A Story by Berthold Auerbach

And how could any live creeter brook the agony them long steel cossets wuz dealin’ the wearer?

From Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands by Marietta Holley

An otherwise urban-dwelling sophisticate, he cultivated a rustic demeanor for France’s benefit, uncharacteristically donning a coonskin hat and simple clothes to impress cosseted aristocrats and ordinary Parisians alike.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

Is there a benefit to being ignored by the industry — you don’t end up cosseted or overly corporate — at least as far as your stand-up goes?

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2025

I cosseted my weary garden with clover, practiced patience, saw the vanity of overwork.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 18, 2023

Much of his life was spent in the cosseted luxury of a five-star hotel.

From BBC ● May 14, 2023

And Goodwife Dolly, tell her I'll never forget how she cosseted the wildered lamb.'

From The Herd Boy and His Hermit by Charlotte Mary Yonge

Catherine essentially becomes a character in a Sofia Coppola movie who grows increasingly trapped and anguished in proportion to her cosseting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026

Her wide, defiantly plain face and unruly emotionalism seemed to reject the cosseting, glamorizing gaze of Hollywood cameras.

From New York Times ● Aug. 26, 2020

“You’ve got to have a sense of risk and excitement,” she says, “otherwise we’re cosseting our kids in a bubble-wrapped world.”

From The Guardian ● Oct. 31, 2019

Experienced for the first time, this covert cosseting feels slightly melancholy, like an episode of Cold War fiction involving futile charades and a likely defenestration.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 5, 2016

This chiefly concerned me, because home cosseting had made me old woman enough to be uneasy about unaired beds; and I knew that my mother meant to consign Clarence to the mullion chamber. 

From Chantry House by Charlotte Mary Yonge