Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—A

Accost

Accost′

means to “come to the side” of a person for the purpose of speaking to him. (Latin, ad costam, to the side.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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