cottan.1
/ˈkɒtə/, U.S. /ˈkɑdə/ Ecclesiastical.
A surplice: see quots. 1848, 1865.
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surpcloth1525
whites1582
linostole1694
stole1805
cotta1848
1848 J. H. Newman Loss & Gain (1853) 47 Do you like the short cotta or the long?
1865 Church Times 25 Nov. The Cotta is the Surplice shortened, and with less ample sleeves.
1884 F. M. Crawford Rom. Singer (ed. 2) I. 23 Putting on his purple cassock and his white cotta.
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Obsolete.
(See quot.)
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1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict. Cotta, a sort of measure, used for measuring of cauries or cowries, of which it holds 12,000.
1858 in P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products
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cottacottahn.3
/ˈkɒtə/, U.S. /ˈkɑdə/ Anglo-Indian.
‘A small land-measure containing eighty square yards’ (Yule).
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bigha1763
cotta1784
cawney1807
chittack1905
1784 in W. S. Seton-Karr & H. D. Sandeman Select. Calcutta Gaz. I. 34 An upper roomed House standing upon about 5 cottahs of ground.
1883 S. Mateer Gospel in S. India 153 He collected some ten cottahs of paddy.
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