Obs. exc. dial. (See quots.)
a. 1598. Peele, Jests, Wks. (Rtldg. 614) (title), How George gulled a Punk, otherwise called a croshabell. Ibid., 616. In Italian called a curtezan, in Spain a margerite … now the word refined being latest, and the authority brought from … the fruitful county of Kent, they call them croshabell, which is a word but lately used.
