Meanings
adjectivecottery (comparative more cottery, superlative most cottery)
comparative more cottery · superlative most cottery
- dialectalrareTangled (of hair).
Prior had looked across the heaving backs and seen a boy, about his own age, standing pressed back against the wall, his white, still face half hidden by a mass of cottery black hair.
1993, Pat Barker, The Eye in the Door (The Regeneration Trilogy), Penguin, published 2014, page 456
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