Obs. nonce-wd. [f. COPE sb.1 + -STER.] A wearer of a cope, i.e., a monk.

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1637.  N. Whiting, Albino & Bellama, 134.

        Into the Arras-sieled parlour then
The coapsters went, in every corner snookt,
The Tihkers visage none of them did ken,
But for Albion, on Albino lookt.

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