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▪ I. ‖ cotta1 Eccl.|ˈkɒtə| [med.L. cotta, cota ‘tunica clericis propria’ (Du Cange): see coat.] A surplice: see quots. 1848, 1865.
1848J. H. Newman Loss & Gain (1853) 47 Do you like the short cotta or the long? 1865Ch. Times 25 Nov., The Cotta is the Surplice shortened, and with less ample sleeves. 1884F. M. Crawford Rom. Singer I. 23 Putting on his purple cassock and his white cotta. ▪ II. † ˈcotta2 Obs. (See quot.)
1823Crabb Techn. Dict., Cotta, a sort of measure, used for measuring of cauries or cowries, of which it holds 12,000. 1858in Simmonds Dict. Trade, etc. ▪ III. ‖ cotta3, cottah Anglo-Ind.|ˈkɒttə| [ad. Hind. kaṭṭhā (Yule).] ‘A small land-measure containing eighty square yards’ (Yule).
1784in Seton-Karr Select. fr. Calcutta Gaz. I. 34 (Y.) An upper roomed House standing upon about 5 cottahs of ground. 1883S. Mateer Gospel in S. Ind. 153 He collected some ten cottahs of paddy. |