to boot

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Meaning: (idiomatic,informal)In addition,besides,also.My boyfriend is funny, and a pretty good cookto boot.1606,Caius [i.e., Gaius] Suetonius Tranquillus, “The Historie ofCaius Iulius CesarDictator”, inPhilêmon Holland, transl.,The Historie of Twelve Cæsars Emperours of Rome.[…], London:[…][Humphrey Lownes and George Snowdon]for Matthew Lownes,→OCLC, section 38,page16:Among the people (ofRome) beſide x.modijof corne, & as many pints of oyle, he diſtributed & dealt 300 Seſterces alſo by the poll, vvhich hee had in times paſt promiſed, vvith an overdeale of 100. a peeceto boote, for time.

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