Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In heraldry, a diminutive of the bend, being one fourth its width, and half the width of the bendlet.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Her.) A diminutive of the bendlet, containing one half its area or one quarter the area of the bend. When a single cottise is used alone it is often called a
cost . See alsocouple-close .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun heraldry A
diminutive of thebendlet , containing one half its area or one quarter the area of thebend .
Etymologies
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Compare French côté side, Latin costa rib.
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