cottery

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cottery (comparative more cottery, superlative most cottery)

  1. (dialect, rare) Tangled (of hair).
    • 1993, Pat Barker, The Eye in the Door (The Regeneration Trilogy), Penguin, published 2014, page 456:
      Prior had looked across the heaving backs and seen a boy, about his own age, standing pressed back against the wall, his white, still face half hidden by a mass of cottery black hair.