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cotehardie

n. A 14th to 16th-century unisex garment tailored to fit the torso and arms, usually with a row of buttons down the front as well as down each fitted sleeve from the elbow to the wrist. Women's coathardies trailed on the floor, but those for men could be cut very short.

Usage examples of "cotehardie".

Half of his cotehardie was turning black in the moonlight as blood pumped from his wound.

He was not dressed in his mail now but in a cotehardie and mantel, for traveling.

His soft hair brushed her face as he lowered his mouth to the skin exposed by her low-cut cotehardie, kissing the top swell of the breasts that his fingers caressed into peaks of yearning.

His hand sought the lacing of her cotehardie, and he began undressing her.

Their victim wore a cotehardie in a rich russet color, trimmed in fur with a jeweled clasp at the throat.

His tawny brocade cotehardie suited him, bringing out the blond highlights in his dark brown hair.

A slender, bearded man of middle height wearing a rich blue-and-silver brocade cotehardie with silver fox trim marched in.

Her anxious hands pulled at his cotehardie and fumbled with his braies.

White cotehardie with exaggerated points on the sleeves, white shirt, white boots, white-blond hair.

She wore a pretty blue cotehardie that hung more loosely than it should.

While she pulled off her blue cotehardie, her gaze fell on the parchments stacked on her writing table.

Her hand froze in midair as she reached for the cotehardie she had chosen.

Sliding the shoulders of her cotehardie and gown down, he exposed her breasts.

He reached into one of the slits in his cotehardie and drew out a handful of glimmering gold.

She lifted the sleeve of a smooth, white cotehardie, comparing the two.