Obs. Also 5 cote-. [a. OF. cote-hardie.] A close-fitting garment with sleeves, formerly worn by both sexes.
a. 1450. Knt. de la Tour, 159. There come in a yonge squier … and he was clothed in a cote hardy upon the guyse of Almayne. Ibid., 165. She clothed her in a cote hardy vnfurred, the whiche satte right streite upon her. Ibid., 167. Forto make her gentille, and smalle, and faire bodied, she clothed her in a symple cote hardye, not doubled.
1834. Planché, Brit. Costume, 128. A close-fitting body garment, called a cote-hardie, buttoned all the way down the front and reaching to the middle of the thigh.
1860. Fairholt, Costume, 96. The gentleman [temp. Edw. III.] wears a close-fitting tunic, called a cote-hardie, with tight sleeves.
