Obs. [a. It. colosso.] = next.
1595. Spenser, Sonn., iii. Admire their statues, their Colossoes great.
1615–22. R. Cocks, Diary (Hakluyt Soc.), I. 200. The temple of Dibottes, with the hudge collosso or bras imadg (or rather idoll) in it.
1622. Peacham, Compl. Gentl. (1634), 20. Statues or huge Colossos full of Lead and rubbish within.
