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cote-ˈhardie Obs. exc. Hist. Also 5 -hardy. [a. OF. cote-hardie.] A close-fitting garment with sleeves, formerly worn by both sexes.
a1450Knt. de la Tour 159 There come in a yonge squier..and he was clothed in a cote hardy upon the guyse of Almayne. Ibid. 165 She clothed her in a cote hardy vnfurred, the whiche satte right streite upon her. Ibid. 167 Forto make her gentille, and smalle, and faire bodied, she clothed her in a symple cote hardye, not doubled. 1834J. R. Planché Brit. Costume 128 A close-fitting body garment, called a cote-hardie, buttoned all the way down the front and reaching to the middle of the thigh. 1860Fairholt Costume 96 The gentleman [temp. Edw. III.] wears a close-fitting tunic, called a cote-hardie, with tight sleeves. 1955Oxf. Jun. Encycl. XI. 87/1 About 1500, men adopted the jerkin..in place of the cote-hardie. 1967E. Short Embroidery & Fabric Collage ii. 38 The women of medieval England decorated their mantles and cotehardies with their husbands' arms. |