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cotton 1

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Searchable Lemmata: coto (L), cotun (AF), cotoun (ME), cotún (Ir), cotwn (W), kotún (N) cotton (MdE).
Alternate Forms: alcoto, cetoim, cotein, cotin, cotom, coton, cotona, cotone, cotonis, cotonn, cotono, cotonus, cotoun, cotounn, cotton, couton, cutuno.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1a(n.) Raw Material; various fibrous materials used for stuffing and padding and medical dressings; matted wool; cotton, cotton-wool; the seed-hair or fibrous substance of the calyx or blossom that surrounds the seeds of several species of the plant Gossypium and mallow family and used for textile purposes (or the plant itself). Cotton thread or yarn is rendered 'cotun fil' in AF, and cotton-wool is rendered 'cotun en laine' (q.v.).(ante 1300 still in current use)
1. [144] ... calce: chauz, cauce, caws ... [145] ... bombace: gallice cotoun Gloss. From a copy of John of Garland's 'Dictionaribus.' [AND TLL (ii 144-145) ante 1300]
2. xviij pannos, quorum iiij de colore et xiiij radiati ... ij lib. de filo cotonis Accounts. [DMLBS Ac. Wardr. (p. 144) 1300]
3. And bynde þe foundement strongely with cotoun and wiþ towe dipped in þe same medecyne, wiþ a rolle manyfolde(cotton and tow used for medical dressing) [MED *Chauliac(2) ((Paris angl.25) 413/36) circa 1425]
4. sacrista ... habeat bonas candelas de sebo albo ... cum lichino interius composito in media saltem parte de cotone et alia de filo Historic. (a candle with a cotton wick) [DMLBS Mon. Exon. (274b) circa 1350]
5. Guto, gwnaed ffaling gotwm, / Gleddau cerdd arglwydd y Cwm. Poetic. [GPC GGl (88. 55-6) circa 1450]
6. a ccosmailius olla cotuin Other. [eDIL 23 K4 2 (180.8)]
7. (505a-b) [Item 20] ... And also to ordeyn and stablissh that noo yoman, nor noon other persone under that degree, fro the fest of Seint Peter called thadvincle next commyng, use nor were in the aray for his body, eny bolsters nor stuffe of wolle, coton nor cadas, nor other stuffer in his doublet, save lynyng accordyng to the same; uppon the peyn to forfeit to youre highnes, at every defaute, .vi. s. .viij. d. ... Legal. [LexP PROME (Ed. IV: Parl. of April 1463, middle of item 20) 1463]
8. pur toutz draps appellez broedes ... tant colorié come blanket et bastardes ... e brocour avera pur brocage ... cotton fil pur le bale . xij d. ... cotton en lain pur le bale – xij d. Accounts. (citations from individual leaf of manuscript may not appear in original order) [AND PRO E163/9/21 (f.20r) 1485/1509]
c.f.: cotum
AF, L, ME, MdE, OScots, W.
Sex: N/A    Use: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
1b(n.) Textile; cotton-cloth or some similar fabric (may be some overlap with previous sense).(circa 1214 still in current use)
1. in cotono et in chalonibus Accounts, Legal. [DMLBS Cl (143b) 1214]
2. [681] ... A plume ne a cotun ne a pailles d’utre mer, De soie ... [682] ... De soie coiltes pointes n’a mais lit au chucher Biblical/Hagiographic. [AND S Aub (681-682) circa 1235]
3. (1415) Furruram de croppes de gray ... j lectum de worstede, de light blewe et sadde blewe ... j plice [?read: plite] de lawnd ... (1416) j plice [read: plite] de lawnd, j flameolum de coton. Wills. [MED Will York in Sur.Soc.4 (382-383) 1415/1416]
4. i couple damask' cremesyn' continent' xxii vergas; xv couples damask' diversorum colorum continent' xlix pecias ... xvii pec[iis] kerch[efs] de cotton' ... xxii pec[iis] kerch[efs] de relisaunse [MED in Gras Eng.Cust.Syst. (512-514) 1420/1421]
5. For blake couton for the herse clothe, vij yardes. [MED Stonor (1.40) ante 1425]
6. gabuis a c[h]eithri cīarlénti ... cíartha ... cotúin uime Heroic, Poetic. [eDIL Fianaig. (84.26)]
c.f.: bombace
AF, ME, MdE, OScots.
Sex: N/A    Use: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, Ultimately from Arabic qutn, qutun, alqoton (cf. acton).
WF:
Etym Cog: coton (OF).
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