Cotta

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Webster's Dictionary [1]

(1): (n.) A surplice, in England and America usually one shorter and less full than the ordinary surplice and with short sleeves, or sometimes none.

(2): (n.) A kind of very coarse woolen blanket.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]

German publisher, born at Stuttgart; established in Tübingen; published the works of Goethe, Schiller, Jean Paul, Herder, and others of note among their contemporaries (1764-1832).

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [3]

was an Italian tunicle of linen reaching to the knees. Ducange says it was a closed circular surplice.

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