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Meaning of hoast | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

A cough.

dialectal

Examples

“in the winter time, right in the middle of the Lord's Prayer, maybe, you'd hear an outbreak of hoasts fit to lift off the roof [...].”
“After that Nero had raygned thirtene yeares: Otho and Galba one yeare, and ſix monethes: Veſpaſianus was counted a potent Pꝛince in Iudæa, amonge the armyes appoynted againſt the Ievves, and being pꝛoclaymed Emperour of the hoaſt that there was, foꝛthe with he is ſent to Rome, committing vnto his ſonne Titus the warres, in hande agaynſte the Ievves.”

CEFR level

B1
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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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