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plural cottas
A surplice, in England and America usually one shorter and less full than the ordinary surplice and with short sleeves, or sometimes none. quotations examples
‘The confidence of the very rich,’ thought Father Carter watching Binkie shaking out albs and cottas and calling rather loudly to the organist.
1978, Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks, Abacus, published 2014, page 131
A kind of coarse woolen blanket. examples
Alternative form of katha (“unit of area”) examples