different between cottery vs pottery

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cottery (comparative more cottery, superlative most cottery)

(dialect, rare) Tangled (of hair).
- 1993, Pat Barker, The Eye in the Door, Penguin 2014 (The Regeneration Trilogy), p. 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.

From Old French poterie [13c.], from potier (“potter”), from the root of pot.

pottery (usually uncountable, plural potteries)

Fired ceramic wares that contain clay when formed.
The shelves were lined with pottery of all shapes and sizes.
(countable) A potter's shop or workshop, where pottery is made.
I visited the old potteries and saw the pots being made.
The potter's craft or art: making vessels from clay.
Bernard Leach was skilled at pottery.

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