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supercota

, super + coat.
Searchable Lemmata: supercota (L).
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    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(n.) Garment; a surcoat. Variant form of Latin surcota (see surcoat), noted in the Revised Medieval Latin Word-List (p. 465) for c. 1200. No citations available.(circa 1200)
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    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, Latin super 'above' + cota
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