What does cottery mean?
Cottery means (dialect, rare) Tangled (of hair)..
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/ˈkɒtəɹi/ · adjective
(dialect, rare) Tangled (of hair)..
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.
Use cottery when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Cottery means (dialect, rare) Tangled (of hair)..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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