cottise

• cotise

Compare French côté (“side”), Latin costa (“rib”).

cottise (plural cottises)

1. (heraldry) A diminutive of the bendlet, containing one half its area or one quarter the area of the bend: a thin line borne around another charge.

• A cottise, under that name, is typically not borne alone (a thin line borne alone may be termed a cost); it typically occurs only in pairs around another ordinary.

cottise (third-person singular simple present cottises, present participle cottising, simple past and past participle cottised)

1. (heraldry, transitive) To border a bend, etc., with cottises, barrulets, etc.

• “cottise”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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