To disparage the work of men like Levau, Mansart, de Cotte and Lebrun, shows an insufficient understanding, not only of what they did, but of the inheritance of confused and turgid ornament from which they freed French art.
The use of a mirror over the fireplace is said to have originated with Mansart; but according to Blondel it was Robert de Cotte who brought about this innovation, thus producing an immediate change in the general scheme of composition.
I saw, a hundred steps before us, at the junction of the Rue deCotte and the Rue Ste.
Marguerite and de Cotte open out and divide the Faubourg, a peasant's cart laden with dung entered the Rue Ste.
With them and his cotte hardie, still lined we may hope with the 20 florins, Froissart betook himself to Rome.
From Milan Froissart, accepting gratefully a cotte hardie with 20 florins of gold, set out upon his travels in Italy.
The ladies wore the houppelande, the cotte hardie, tight around the girdle, and looped up their sleeves excessivement to show this cotte hardie; they also had openings in the surcoat to show the girdle.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cotte" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
