Variations of Ordinaries - Cottices

Cottices

Cottices, also spelled cottises, cotises, cotices, are narrow stripes beside and parallel to an ordinary.

• Cottises have plain edges unless specified.

• Here the ordinary's edges are straight and the cottice's not.

• A pale so accompanied is often blazoned as endorsed.

• Cottices can take fancy colourings.

• Cottices can be doubled.

• An exotic variation.

The arms of Champagne show double cottices "potented and counter potented," (côtoyée de deux doubles cotices potencées et contre-potencées) while the cotises of Timothy Hugh Stewart Duke have "upper edges in the form of the upper rim of a ducal coronet."