cotuca

cotuca [cf. cota] 1 coat, outer garment: a (mon); b (mil.). a [abbas R., ob. 1290] quod octo ~e in conventu singulis annis cursatim darentur ordinaverat G. S. Alb. II 51 (cf. ib. 106: sic servientes [in refectorio] pelliceas vel ~as decenter indutas habeant); 14‥ percipiet abbas de camera j coopertorium cum furrura agnellina, j ~am decentem sine furrura ‥ Amund. II app. 319 (cf. ib. II app. 320: [infirmarius] dabit abbati dim. m. pro una ~a).  b s1321 magnates ‥ diversa indumenta super arma ad cognoscendas turmas sibi providentes, viz. pro militibus ~as, A. quartleys [Wals. HA I 161: quarteloys], pro armigeris vero bendes Trokelowe 109. 2 (w. armorum) (nickname for) man-at-arms. s1407 nostri ceperunt quasdam naves hostium et in eisdem vjxx homines quales vocant vulgariter ‘~as armorum’ Chr. S. Alb. 10.