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  • noun Plural form of cotyle.

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  • We will be troubled no more either with cotyles or capsules, but recollect simply that Hirundo, [Greek: chelidôn], swallow, schwalbe, and hirondelle, are in each language the sufficing single words for the entire Hirundine race.

    Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds John Ruskin 1859

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