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noun
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.
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verb
To border a bend, etc., with cottises, barrulets, etc.
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Usage: transitive
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History
From Middle French cotice, costice, from côte + -ice, from Latin costa (“rib”).
