Lexicographical Neighbors of Coutille
Literary usage of Coutille
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1897)
"... that steel bars and French coutille are used instead of plaster. It fits as
snug to the body as a plaster corset, and its parts form an outer skeleton, ..."
2. Dictionary of Textiles by Louis Harmuth (1915)
"coutille—-French jean of zigzag pattern for corsets. See Coutil 4. Coventry—Bright
blue worsted yarn made in England and used for embroidery; obsolete. ..."
3. A Tractate on Language: With Observations on the French Tongue, Eastern by Gordon Willoughby James Gyll (1860)
"... coutille, coste, cote. The name of Cotterell is the same. Hoche-pot, a dish,
and also a clause introduced into settlements, &c. by lawyers, all implying ..."
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