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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete spelling of cottage.

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Examples

  • Thomas hath the reversion of a cotage now in the tenure of William Jefferye.

    Notes and Queries, Number 09, December 29, 1849 Various

  • That in their cotage small, that night she rest her may.

    The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser

  • Thinking none to be more meete for that state then one Abdolominus, who being of the royall race, for pouertie was inforced to inhabite a litle cotage without the citie.

    The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

  • All the vilage was agog, for in their midst had old Hall and his Wife whome he always (spoke of as the Misus) taken a small but quaint cotage, so as to make quiet and please Rose whose guardien he was.

    The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VI. (of X.) Various 1887

  • There was a TV show about cotage ife in the 80s called "mosquito Lake" starring Canada's funniest man, Mike McDonald.

    John K Stuff 2008

  • & the old place whiche was wontyd to be most holy, | | now in respecte of it, is but a darke hole and a lytle cotage.

    The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion Desiderius Erasmus 1502

  • Not that I'm not all about wasting some time figuring out what is going on, but if the documentation is right there and easily available … though it may be redindant, if he really reverse engeneered the strings needed to do the different manipulations, it's pretty cool to me, someone reverse engeneer google's database and we'll be set. it seems odd to me that even though google has what amounts to the world's single biggest cluster supercomputer, there really isn't that much you interface with. i'm just imagining a little cozy looking cotage that's google's homepage with this enourmous factory beihind it, where only the magic google-gnomes are allowed in.

    WordPress.com News Ian Lesnet 2008

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