cotehardie

American  

[koht-ahr-dee, -hahr-] / ˌkoʊtˈɑr di, -ˈhɑr- /

noun

1. (in the Middle Ages) a close-fitting outer garment with long sleeves, hip-length for men and full-length for women, often laced or buttoned down the front or back.

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Etymology

Origin of cotehardie

1300–50; Middle English < Old French: literally, bold coat

Example Sentences

Men wore eight indispensable articles of dress, the shirt, breeches, stockings, shoes, coat, surcoat or cotehardie, mantle, and head dress.

From Project Gutenberg

The transition from tunic and cloak and Oriental draperies is so slow and so little marked by definite change that to the ordinary observer the Edwardian cotehardie seems to have sprung from nowhere: man seems to have, on a sudden, dropped his stately wraps and mantles and discarded his chrysalis form to appear in tight lines following the figure—a form infinitely more gay and alluring to the eye than the ponderous figure that walks through the end of the thirteenth century.

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Then dawned the fourteenth century—the youth of clothes—and our fashion boy shot up, dropped his mantles and heaviness, and came out from thence slim and youthful in a cotehardie.

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This new cotehardie was cut in several ways.

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Most men wear the cotehardie, the well-fitting garment buttoned down the front, and ending over the hips.

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