English Explanatory Dictionary

cottise

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A diminutive of the bendlet, containing one half its area or one quarter the area of the bend: a thin line borne around another charge.
verb
  1. To border a bend, etc., with cottises, barrulets, etc.

Word forms

cottise cottises cotise cottising cottised

Etymology

From Middle French cotice, costice, from côte + -ice, from Latin costa (“rib”).

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