cottage

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So long as his cottage was a "cottage of gentility," why try to augment his fortune?

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  1. noun A small, single-storied house, especially in the country.
  2. noun A small vacation house.

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  1. Middle English cotage, from Anglo-Norman, from Medieval Latin cotāgium, of Germanic origin.

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  1. from Middle English cotage (Middle Latin cotagium), from cot (see cot) + -age. F. cottage is from English
 

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/ˈkɑtədʒ/
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