See Also: cottage(dictionary)
cottage(dictionary)
Cottage Industry(money)
Oriental cottage pie(recipes)
Cottage pie with leeks(recipes)
Comforting cottage pie(recipes)
Le Cottage Marcadet(tourism)
COTTAGE, estates(law)
tied cottage(dictionary)
cottage industry(dictionary)

cottage (iou)



cottage noun. LME.
[Anglo-Norman cotage, Anglo-Latin cotagium, from COT noun1, COTE noun1: see -AGE.]
1. A small modest dwelling of the kind for long occupied by poorer country people. LME.
love in a cottage: see LOVE noun.
2. A small temporary shelter. M16-L18.
3. Without implication of poverty: any moderate detached country or suburban residence. M18.
cottage orne(e) a villa in the form of a cottage with an ornate design.
A private summer holiday residence. N. Amer. L19.
A one-storey house, a bungalow. Austral. L19.
One of a group of small detached dwelling units forming part of a larger complex, as in a hotel or institution. N. Amer. M20.
Comb.: cottage-bonnet a woman's close-fitting straw bonnet fashionable in the early 19th cent.; cottage cheese a soft white cheese made from unpressed curds; cottage hospital a small hospital without resident medical staff; cottage industry: carried on partly or wholly in people's homes; cottage loaf: of two round masses, a smaller on top of a larger; cottage lecture an address given by a clergyman in a layman's home; cottage piano a small upright piano; cottage pie a pie of minced meat and potatoes under mashed potatoes; (loosely) = shepherd's pie s.v. SHEPHERD noun.
cottaged adjective (a) rare lodged in a cottage or humble dwelling; (b) set with cottages: M17.
cottagey, cottagy adjective resembling or suggestive of a cottage M19.
cottaging noun (slang) using or frequenting public toilets for homosexual sex L20.