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A surplice, in England and America usually one shorter and less full than the ordinary surplice and with short sleeves, or sometimes none.
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A kind of coarse woollen blanket.
Examples of cotta in a Sentence
Mithradates defeated Cotta, the Roman consul, at Chalcedon; but Lucullus worsted him, and drove him in 72 to take refuge in Armenia with his son-in-law Tigranes.
After 1872, in addition to its regular organs, it issued Hungarian translations of several popular scientific English works, as, for instance, Darwin's Origin of Species; Huxley's Lessons in Physiology; Lubbock's Prehistoric Times; Proctor's Other Worlds than Ours; Tyndall's Heat as a Mode of Motion, &c. Versions were also made of Cotta's Geologie der Gegenwart and Helmholtz's Populcire Vorlesungen.
Terra cotta censers have also been found of a similar shape.
One of the most remarkable periodicals of this class was the Jahrbucher fur wissenschaftliche Kritik (1827-1846), first published by Cotta.
Among the city's manufactures are boilers, machines, glass, chemicals, terra cotta, brick, iron pipes and couplings, gas engines, cutlery and silk.
Aurunculeius Cotta, and almost annihilated them.
When Lucullus assumed the command of the Roman troops in Asia, Caesar returned to Rome, to find that he had been elected to a seat on the college of pontifices left vacant by the death of his uncle, C. Aurelius Cotta.
He was put out of all need of money by the singular benefaction of Cotta, the well-known Stuttgart publisher, who was part-proprietor of the Constitutionnel, and made over to Thiers his dividends, or part of them.
In 74 Cotta obtained the province of Gaul, and was granted a triumph for some victory of which we possess no details; but on the very day before its celebration an old wound broke out, and he died suddenly.
According to Cicero, P. Sulpicius Rufus and Cotta were the best speakers of the young men of their time.
Physically incapable of rising to passionate heights of oratory, Cotta's successes were chiefly due to his searching investigation of facts; he kept strictly to the essentials of the case and avoided all irrelevant digressions.
The fragments of Sallust contain the substance of a speech delivered by Cotta in order to calm the popular anger at a deficient corn-supply.
His brother, Lucius Aurelius Cotta, when praetor in 70 B.C. brought in a law for the reform of the jury lists, by which the judices were to be eligible, not from the senators exclusively as limited by Sulla, but from senators, equites and tribuni aerarii.
Manlius Torquatus accused the consuls-elect for the following year of bribery in connexion with the elections; they were condemned, and Cotta and Torquatus chosen in their places.
After the suppression of the Catilinarian conspiracy, Cotta proposed a public thanksgiving for Cicero's services, and after the latter had gone into exile, supported the view that there was no need of a law for his recall, since the law of Clodius was legally worthless.
He subsequently attached himself to Caesar, and it was currently reported that Cotta (who was then quindecimvir) intended to propose that Caesar should receive the title of king, it being written in the books of fate that the Parthians could only be defeated by a king.
Cotta's intention was not carried out in consequence of the murder of Caesar, after which he retired from public life.
In the more "extreme" x 5a churches the surplices are frank imitations of the Roman cotta.
It has a Protestant church, a hydropathic establishment, and the oldest academy of forestry in Germany (founded by Heinrich Cotta in 1811) with about sixty students.
These were followed by several editions of Goethe's Sdmtliche Werke, mostly in forty volumes, published by Cotta of Stuttgart.
At Eisenach he attracted the notice of the wife of a wealthy merchant of Eisenach, whom his biographers usually identify as Frau Cotta.
He is then refuted by Cotta.
Cotta criticizes the views of Balbus.
Atkinson, Oriental and Western Siberia (1858); and Cotta, Der Altai (1871), are still worth consulting.
In 74 he became consul, and went to Asia at the head of about 30,000 foot and 2000 horse, to defend the province of Bithynia against Mithradates, who was besieging his colleague, Marcus Aurelius Cotta, in Chalcedon on the Propontis.
The city of Trenton is one of the two great centres of the American pottery industry, and in 1905 it manufactured more than one-half of the state's output of pottery, terra cotta and fire-clay products.
The filling between the girders and floor beams consists of segmental arches of brick, segmental or flat arches of porous (sawdust) terra-cotta, or hard-burned hollow terra- - cotta voussoirs, or various patented forms of con crete floors containing ties or supports of steel or iron.
Such fire-proof coverings, and also interior partitions, are composed of hollow, hard-burned terra-cotta blocks, of porous (sawdust) terra cotta, or various plastic compositions applied to metallic lath, many of which are patented both as to material and method of application.
Noteworthy are also the Klemda, a small castle dating from 1260; the Lutherhaus, in which the reformer stayed with the Cotta family in 1498; the house in which Sebastian Bach was born, and that (now a museum) in which Fritz Reuter lived (1863-1874).
They were first printed in two forms in 1810 - a German translation down to the year 1733 from the firm of Cotta of Tubingen; and in French published by Vieweg of Brunswick, and coming down to 1742.
Among the city's industries are the mining of clay and sand, and the manufacture of terra cotta.
Decorated with handcrafted furniture in native woods, woven fabrics and rugs, Mexican terra cotta tiled floors, original artwork and antiques.
Water Storage Most Indian kitchens have a terra cotta pot used to keep water cool.
There he completed his investigation of the comet of 1680, for which the Cotta prize was awarded to him in 1817; he correctly assigned a period of 71 years to the comet of 1812; and discovered the swift circulation of the remarkable comet which bears his name (see Comet).
Part of the Broad Street facade, showing terra cotta string courses, window dressings and aprons.
Choose a large terra cotta pot, and fill it with all sorts of cool baby stuff.
In a characters or themed terra cotta pot, you add water and then spread damp Chia seeds on the body of the pot.
The five-story structure is made of cream-colored Indiana limestone topped with an ochre terra cotta tile roof.
The roof is made of terra cotta tile and white Vermont marble is used liberally throughout the house.
They wanted to their new kitchen to have a warm, Tuscan feel, with terra cotta tiles, marble counter-tops, and stainless steel appliances.
Shades of brown from deep, rich chocolate browns to light rawhide tans can be used as well as warm shades of bronze, copper and earthy terra cotta tones.
Rough, irregular tile; highly-polished glazed tiles, often with painted Italian designs; and terra cotta clay tiles are all commonly used for countertops, back-splashes, and floor coverings.
Accessories - Look for accessories that incorporate things like brass, copper, clay or terra cotta.
Terra cotta pottery, including urns, bowls and vases are a standard element in Mediterranean style decorating and that includes French country decor.
An array of colors take their inspiration from nature-reds, oranges, terra cotta, yellows, olive greens, turquoise, browns, burgundy, and ivory.
If you selected an olive green, then use a terra cotta red.
A long-standing color associated with Tuscan design is the rich clay-color paint known as terra cotta.
This paint color repeats the color found in the common style of terra cotta tiles used throughout homes, especially in foyers, gardens and of course kitchens.
While greens are usually used as accent colors in a Tuscan décor with the terra cotta color as the main backdrop, you can certainly choose a green for your wall color.
Sprinkle in some terra cotta color for accent and you'll have a very appealing kitchen design.