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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: <1375, 1375, 1436-1500, 1572-1603
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Cotoun, Cottoun, n. Also: cottoune, coittoun; cot(t)one. [e.m.E. cotton, ME. cotoun, coton, OF. coton.]
1. Cotton; cotton cloth. (Cf. Cottane.)1328 Exchequer Rolls I. 122.
Debet j petram … de cotoun 1436 Ib. IV. 679.]
[Cum duodecim libris de cotona ad preservandum eadem bona ?1438 Alex. i. 3285.
Vpon ane cod [F. coute pointe] punȝeid of cottoun, … Thay laid Emynedus 1457 Exchequer Rolls VI. 298.
Pro … panno laneo, linio, le cotone 1474 Treasurer's Accounts I. 21.
j li. of cottoune, price iij s. c1500 Fyve Bestes 370.
His habit was me thocht of cottoun gray 1572 Edinburgh Testaments I. 257 b.
xiij eln quhyt lyning cottoun, price of the eln iij s.
2. Attrib. with bumbasie, claith, freis.1477 Edinb. Chart. 141.
The merket of all cottone claith … and all vthir claith … within vj quartaris, and al lynnyng claith 1593 Edinburgh Testaments XXV. 190 b.
xj elnes of blak cottoun bumbasie 1603 Treasurer's Accounts MS. 234 b.
Rouuge broun coittoun freis to be hir ane vther goun
