[App. a trade application of F. Cosaque Cossack, prob. in allusion to the sudden and irregular firing of the latter.] A cracker bon-bon.
1858. Simmonds, Dict. Trade Prod., Cosaques, a French fancy paper for wrapping sweetmeats.
1882. P. Fitzgerald, Recreat. Lit. Man (1883), 91. A little cosaque, which I saw him merrily ‘exploding’ at the supper-table.
1884. Daily News, 6 Dec., 5/3. The manufacture of cosaques and bon-bons must be brisk this Christmas.
Cosaque, obs. f. CASSOCK.
1698. J. Crull, Muscovy, 79. Their upper Garments are made like Vests, or rather Cosaques, falling down to the mid-leg.
