cotta

plural cottas

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

   ‘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

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   She wore a short surcoat of scarlet, cut low around the shoulders, sleeveless, reaching just below her hips, like the tabards worn by medieval heralds. Over it she wore a laced-edged cotta.

   1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 25

2. A kind of coarse woolen blanket.

plural cottas

1. alternativeAlternative form of katha (“unit of area”).

1. A barangay of the city of Lucena, Quezon, Philippines.