cotte

Beneath the shelf, half-unfolded, lay a leather saddle-roll, and dropped carelessly upon it a man's cotte and chausses and shirt, and the rolled cloak he had not needed on the journey.

His Disposition 2010

The lad at his back had sackcloth draped over his shoulders and the opened end of a sack over his head, a long young fellow in the common duncoloured cotte and hose of the countryside.

A River So Long 2010

Marco hadn't needed his cotte for weeks; the only bad part about the weather warming was that the canals were beginning to smell.

The Shadow Of The Lion Lackey, Mercedes 2002

Rafael shrugged his shoulders, barely rippling the gray-black material of his cotte, and put his parchments behind the bookcase beside him.

The Shadow Of The Lion Lackey, Mercedes 2002

He beat the worst of the dried mud out of them, and pulled them on, wrapped a blanket around himself, pulled his cotte on over it all, and crawled back out into the day.

The Shadow Of The Lion Lackey, Mercedes 2002

The lad at his back had sackcloth draped over his shoulders and the opened end of a sack over his head, a long young fellow in the common duncoloured cotte and hose of the countryside.

Brother Cadfael's Penance Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1994

And his companion, the elder of the two masons who had set off hopefully to find steady work at Ramsey, here beside him, with torn cotte and a clout bound about his head, and a cheekbone blackened from a blow.

The Holy Thief Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1992

The earl was plain and elegant as ever in his sombre colourings and fine fabrics, crimson cotte cut reasonably short for riding, and deep grey-blue surcoat slashed to the thigh fore and aft.

The Holy Thief Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1992

They would accept a runaway novice, all the more when they heard him sing and play; they would provide him a patron and a house harp, and strip him of his skirts and find him chausses and shirt and cotte in payment for his music.

The Holy Thief Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1992

He wore leather jerkin and the working cotte and hose becoming a younger brother doing his share on his elder's estate until he could find occasion to carve out his own holding, as surely he would.

The Holy Thief Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1992