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  • noun Plural form of cottage.

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Examples

  • Kentish hop-fields, and was glad to leave them for the closer-set, but never too closely set, palaces of Frascati: the sort of palaces which we call cottages in our summer cities, and the Italians call casinos from the same instinctive modesty.

    Roman Holidays, and Others William Dean Howells 1878

  • Found just outside the town of Vilcabamba, in the so-called "Valley of the Immortals", Madre Tierra has a new-age feel, with rooms resembling gingerbread cottages from a Brothers Grimm storybook.

    South America: Perfect posadas Vicky Baker 2010

  • They dwell in cottages and semi - detached villas, with bits of flower garden, and elbow room, and breathing space.

    MY LODGING AND SOME OTHERS 2010

  • It's across meridians and main roads, through villages and past those meretricious mansions that they call cottages there, down lanes and through traffic - professionals on performance-enhancing drugs might falter, but Betty wants to go.

    Diana Meehan: Betty Friedan: This Feminist was Fun 2008

  • Up to the cottages is kinda of a Toronto term, since cottage country is directly north of Toronto.

    question 2005

  • Up to the cottages is kinda of a Toronto term, since cottage country is directly north of Toronto.

    question 2005

  • There were five families, linked by long histories and much intermarriage over the generations, and they all built large homes they called cottages, despite their size.

    Lawman Lover Dawson, Saranne 1999

  • He drove me around the grounds in his own car, ana pointed out the recreation hall, hospital, school, administrative offices, and the two-story brick buildings he called cottages where the patients lived.

    Flowers for Algernon Keyes, Daniel 1966

  • Earth road past these cottages is like a muck-heap and said to be almost impassable in winter.

    The Road to Wigan Pier 1937

  • They dwell in cottages and semidetached villas, with bits of flower garden, and elbow room, and breathing space.

    My Lodging and Some Others 1903

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