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accost
1570s, from M.Fr.
accoster
"move up to" (16c.), from L.L.
accostare
"come up to the side," from L.
ad-
"to" +
costa
"rib, side" (see
coast
). The original notion is of fleets of warships attacking an enemy's coast.
