The process or act of adding cotice bands or stripes to a heraldic shield or coat of arms.
From 'cotice' + '-ing' (gerund/present participle suffix), describing the heraldic design process.
Medieval heralds literally painted 'coticing' onto shields—it was manual craft work that became constitutional law, binding families to visual identities forever.
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