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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1375, 1450-1452, 1513-1586
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Cot-armour, n. [Cot n.2] = Cote-armour. 1375 Barb. viii. 231.
Thair best & browdyn bricht baneris, … And cot-armouris off seir colour 1375 Ib. xviii. 95.
Schir Eduard that day wald nocht ta His cot-armour c1450-2 Howlat 336.
The specht was a pursevant, … In a cot armour Of all kynd of colour c1450-2 Ib. 426.
Mony schen scheld … That bene cot armouris of eild c1515 Asloan MS I. 238/9.
The lard of Dundas and vther syndry gentill men … of cotarmouris on that syd 1513 Doug. xi. ii. 84.
Hys rych gyrdill, and cotarmour, Turnus victor byreft hym in the stour 1535 Stewart 7232.
Of he caist his cot armour sa cler, And kinglie weid 1535 Ib. 12511.
In armour bricht and cot armour weill cled a1578 Pitsc. I. 273/4.
They fand money lyke him [sc. the king] clade in his cott armour a1586 Lindesay MS. 55.
Ten ordouris of angellis … in cot armouris of knawlege
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