cottage
IPA: kˈɑtʌdʒ
noun
- A small house.
- A seasonal home of any size or stature, a recreational home or a home in a remote location.
- (UK, slang, archaic) A public lavatory.
- (Polari) A meeting place for homosexual men.
- A township in Saline County, Illinois.
- An unincorporated community in Macon County, Missouri, United States.
- A village in Rivière du Rempart District, Mauritius.
verb
- To stay at a seasonal home, to go cottaging.
- (intransitive, Polari, of men) To have homosexual sex in a public lavatory; to practice cottaging.
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Examples of "cottage" in Sentences
- They came together and calved under the little cottage.
- The tapestry cover the walls and ceiling of the cottage.
- The cottage still stands on the westerly shore of the lake.
- He moves out of the cottage and back into the school dorms.
- The cottage is now listed on the Register of the National Estate.
- They will start their married lives in a poky cottage in Florida.
- He lives on the Farthingale estate in the cottage behind the maze.
- Then an intruder breaks into the cottage in the middle of the night.
- The cottage belonged to the Slack family but was deserted in the 1960s.
- He is the last of the original domestic staff to remain at the cottage.