Crossword-Solution: COTTE 5 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Jean thought of the Scottish thistle, and studied the dresses, tight-fitting ‘cotte hardis’ of bright, deep, soft, rose colour, edged with white fur, and white skirts embroidered with their appropriate flowers.

This splendid hall, which to-day serves as the entrance to the _grand appartements_, owed its design to Robert de Cotte.

His shield and cotte d’armes are semé of ermines, and by his side is the dagger of miséricorde, which served to kill the fallen enemy unless he cried for mercy.

Laced tight, after the fashion, the _cotte-hardie_ made her waist appear little larger than could be clasped by the hands of a soldier, while a silken-shod foot with which she tapped the ground would have nestled neatly in his palm.

Above this was the _cotte_ in cloth of silver, with needlework either (according to the temperature and disposition of the weather) of satin, damask, velvet, orange, tawny, green, ash-colored, blue, yellow, crimson, cloth of gold, cloth of silver, or some other choice stuff, according to the day.