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Definition of Cotta
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.
Definition of Cotta
1. a short surplice [n -TAE or -TAS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cotta
Literary usage of Cotta
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of April 18, 1906: And Their Effects by Grove Karl Gilbert, Joseph Austin Holmes, Richard Lewis Humphrey, John Stephen Sewell, Frank Soulé (1907)
"TERRA cotta. As fireproofing for floors terra-cotta tiling has not given universal
satisfaction. It is lighter than concrete, but the wrenching of buildings ..."
2. The Pottery and Porcelain of the United States: An Historical Review of by Edwin Atlee Barber (1893)
"The terra-cotta is of a pure yellow, in surface ornamentation, upon a soft, brown
ground, with columns of Indian red, the whole framed in a setting of ..."
3. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"RS TERRA cotta. Hard baked pottery, especially that which is used in architecture
or in decorative art of large scale. It may be left with its natural brown ..."
4. A Manual of Historic Ornament, Treating Upon the Evolution, Tradition, and by Richard Glazier (1906)
"ERRA cotta. Terra cotta is usually made from pure clay, which will burn to a
white or yellow colour, or from impure, which will burn to a red colour owing ..."
5. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1868)
"By the Author of " Chronicles of the Schon- berg-cotta Family." New York : MW Dodd.
THE author of these books has never announced herself upon a ..."
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