cotta
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 7
- Words With Friends
- 8
- Letters
- 5
Definition of cotta
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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A surplice, in England and America usually one shorter and less full than the ordinary surplice and with short sleeves, or sometimes none.
“She wore a short surcoat of scarlet, cut low around the shoulders, sleeveless, reaching just below her hips, like the tabards worn by medieval heralds. Over it she wore a laced-edged cotta.”
“‘The confidence of the very rich,’ thought Father Carter watching Binkie shaking out albs and cottas and calling rather loudly to the organist.”
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noun
-
A surplice, in England and America usually one shorter and less full than the ordinary surplice and with short sleeves, or sometimes none.
“She wore a short surcoat of scarlet, cut low around the shoulders, sleeveless, reaching just below her hips, like the tabards worn by medieval heralds. Over it she wore a laced-edged cotta.”
“‘The confidence of the very rich,’ thought Father Carter watching Binkie shaking out albs and cottas and calling rather loudly to the organist.”
- A kind of coarse woolen blanket.
- (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of katha (“unit of area”).
name
- A barangay of the city of Lucena, Quezon, Philippines.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Medieval Latin cotta (“clerical tunic”).
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