an a cost a (anakosta)

[Sp.] A woolen fabric made in Holland and exported to Spain. Anacreontic (an-ak-re-on'tik), a. and n. [L. Anacreontic us, Constantinople had given him a taste for Anacreontic singing and female society of the questionable kind. R. F. Burton, El-Medinah, p. 88. II. n. [L. c.] [F. anacréontique .] A poem by A nacre on, or composed in the manner of A nacre on; a little poem in praise of love and wine. Formerly sometimes written anacreontique . To the miscellanies [of Cowley] succeed the a nacre on tiques. Johnson, Cowley.