Coco
[koh-koh] /ˈkoʊ koʊ/
noun, plural cocos.
1.
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2.
(def 1).
[koh-koh; Spanish kaw-kaw] /ˈkoʊ koʊ; Spanish ˈkɔ kɔ/
noun
1.
a river rising in N Nicaragua and flowing NE along the Nicaragua-Honduras border to the Caribbean Sea. About 300 miles (485 km) long.
[shuh-nel; French sha-nel] /ʃəˈnɛl; French ʃaˈnɛl/
noun
1.
Gabrielle
[ga-bree-el] /ga briˈɛl/ (Show IPA), (“Coco”) 1882–1971, French fashion designer.
/ˈkəʊkəʊ/
noun (pl) -cos
1.
short for coconut, coconut palm
/French ʃanɛl/
noun
1.
Gabrielle (ɡabriɛl), known as Coco Chanel. 1883–1971, French couturière and perfumer, who created “the little black dress” and the perfume Chanel No. 5
n.
“palm tree,” mid-16c., from Spanish and Portuguese coco “grinning face,” on resemblance of the three holes at the base of the shell to a human face. The earlier word for it was the Latinized form cocus, which sometimes was anglicized as cocos.
Paris fashion house, founded by Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel (1883-1971), French fashion designer and perfumier, who opened her first shop in 1909. The perfume Chanel No. 5 debuted in 1921.
computer
The Tandy Color Computer with a Motorola MC6809E CPU. The Dragon is a CoCo clone. The CoCo was as powerful as the IBM XT at the time it was made, and could run OS-9.
(1997-02-12)
contractor-owned/contractor-operated
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