cottagen.

Brit.

/ˈkɒtɪdʒ/, U.S.

/ˈkɑdɪdʒ/

Forms: Middle English cotag, Middle English–1500s cotage, Middle English– cottage, 1500s catage, 1500s coittage (Scottish), 1500s cotige.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French cotage.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman cotage a small rural dwelling house or its associated landholding (late 13th cent. or earlier), transferred use of Anglo-Norman and Old French cotage , adjective (in cens cotage rent for a cottage or similar non-aristocratic tenement: late 13th cent. in a source from Normandy), (noun) rent for a cottage (beginning of the 14th cent. in Anglo-Norman; Middle French cotage , adjective and noun) < either English cot n.¹ or one of its Germanic cognates + Anglo-Norman and Old French -age -age suffix. Compare post-classical Latin cotagium cottage (tenement or building) (frequently from 1200 in British sources), cottage tenure (1270 in a British source).With the French and Latin senses relating to rent or tenure compare the following, apparently isolated use of the English word:a1700 MS Ashmole 837 in F. J. Furnivall Queene Elizabethes Achademy (1869) 38 An Esquire..is he that in times past was Costrell to a Knight..; whereof euery knight had twoe at the least [in] attendance upon him, in respect of the fee, For they held their land of the Knight by Cottage, as the Knight held his of the King by Knight service. The Anglo-Norman and Middle French word fell out of use after the 14th cent., but the English word was subsequently borrowed into French as cottage small rural dwelling house (1754, earliest with reference to England), small elegant country house (1842; compare sense 1b); compare cottage orné n.

a. A small house, typically simple or basic in construction, such as is, or was formerly, intended to be occupied by a farm labourer, villager, miner, fisherman, etc. Cf. cot n.¹ 1.Historically the term is found first applied to the dwelling places or holdings (see also sense 2) which under the feudal system were occupied by individuals classed as cottars, cottiers, cotsets, or coterells (see these words), and by the labourers of a farmstead. Dwellings for the labouring classes in both rural and urban districts were, under this name, the subject of various legal enactments, such as the Erection of Cottages Act (31 Eliz. I. c. 7, 1588; repealed by 15 Geo. III. c. 32, 1775), and, when under a certain rental, were exempted from paying church rate, poor rate, etc. With the disappearance of legal regulations and exemptions the term has become more vague in its application (cf. sense 1b), although it continues to be applied in the narrower sense to buildings which were formerly so called.cob cottage, railway cottage, etc.: see the first element. tied cottage: see tied adj.¹ 2b.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > small house > small ( and humble) house

cotc893

cotlif1001

cotea1034

cratchc1325

shiel1338

cottagec1405

cot-housec1550

cell1577

shiel-house1804

c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Nun's Priest's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 2 A poore widwe..Was whilom dwellynge in a narwe cotage.

a1450 (c1435) J. Lydgate Life SS. Edmund & Fremund (Harl.) l. 185 in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1881) 2nd Ser. 417 (MED) Aldare..with his wiff in a smal cotage Ther houshold heeld.

?1518 A. Barclay Fyfte Eglog sig. A^v At this same season, two herdes, fresshe of age At tyme apoynted, met bothe in one cotage.

1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 440 Thys yere, of an euill fauoured olde house or cotage was the Guyldhall in London buylded and finished.

1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice i. ii. 14 If to do were as easie as to know what were good to do, Chappels had beene Churches, and poore mens cottages Princes Pallaces.

1612 S. Daniel First Pt. Hist. Eng. ii. 75 The English lived loose, in little homely cottages, where they spent all their reuenewes in good fare, caring for little other gaiety at all.

1658 J. Hewitt Repentance & Conversion 195 The Peasant that from his loamy cottage is carried prisoner to a stately Castle.

1722 D. Defoe Relig. Courtship i. ii. 63 It's a sorry Thief would rob a Cottage.

1775 N. Kent Hints to Gentlemen 230 We are apt to look upon cottages as incumbrances, and clogs to our property; when, in fact, those who occupy them are the very nerves and sinews of agriculture.

1840 S. S. Ellis Sons of Soil p. xii The agricultural labourer has a feeling of property, not only in his own cottage and garden, but in his master's farm.

1872 E. Peacock Mabel Heron II. i. 4 Mrs. Heron took her round to all the labourers' cottages.

a1935 W. Holtby South Riding (1936) i. i. 15 Poor people lived in cottages; the Carnes lived in a Hall, which was the biggest house for miles around.

1937 Times 22 Nov. 20/6 It is always calving time and pigging time; the tied cottage is..essential to keep the necessary man on top of hs job.

1966 Life 16 Sept. 126/1 Sharmat's peasant cottage is about half a mile from the village center on a five-acre plot of land.

2003 Islands Mar. 82/2 The original cottages would probably not have had either running water or electricity.

2016 Sunday Tel. 31 July (Living section) 15/1 Picture-perfect fishermen's cottages in all colours of the rainbow.

b. More generally: any modestly sized house, most commonly one in a rural district; any house which is regarded as having a rustic or bucolic character. See also cottage orné n.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > small house

mousetrap1727

cottage1765

maisonette1785

houselet1802

matchbox1920

1765 H. Walpole Let. 23 Aug. in Corr. (1941) X. 168 My new cottage..is to have nothing Gothic about it, nor pretend to call cousins with the mansion-house.

1799 S. T. Coleridge & R. Southey Devil's Thoughts in Morning Post & Gazetteer 6 Sept. A cottage with a double coach-house, A cottage of gentility.

1811 J. Austen Sense & Sensibility I. vi. 63 As a house, Barton Cottage, though small, was comfortable and compact; but as a cottage it was defective, for the building was regular, the roof was tiled, the window shutters were not painted green, nor were the walls covered with honeysuckles.

1845 Penny Cycl. Suppl. I. 426 The term cottage has for some time past been in vogue as a particular designation for small country residences and detached suburban houses, adapted to a moderate scale of living, yet with all due attention to comfort and refinement.

1884 C. Reade Perilous Secret II. xviii. 106 This cottage, then, was in reality something between a villa and a cottage; it resembled a villa in this, that the rooms were lofty, [etc.].

1936 Times 8 Jan. 11 The English..are apt..to put things like ‘church’ and ‘cottage’ into the category of the beautiful, and things like ‘bungalow’ and ‘pylon’ into the category of the ugly... It may be the same building, whether it be called ‘cottage’ or ‘bungalow’, but [etc.].

1998 E. M. Orsten From Anschluss to Albion vi. 78 The so called ‘cottage’ in which we lived was really a solid, two-storey farm house.

c. Australian (a) Any detached house. Now rare. (b) A small single-storeyed suburban house, typically one built in the 19th or early 20th century.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > house of specific shape or style

hall-house1467

longhouse1643

bungalow1676

single housea1684

tower-house1687

villa1755

box1773

cottage orné1774

villarette1792

mews1805

cottage1808

terrace house1817

casita1822

villa dwelling1833

villa residence1833

box-house1846

six-roomer1853

terrace1854

tembe1860

moat house1871

parlour house1871

row house1871

salt-box1876

trullo1898

townhouse1900

colonial1903

semi1912

Cape Cod1916

bungaloid1927

semi-detached1928

ranchette1938

solar house1946

rambler1947

rancher1950

ranch1951

tunnel-back1957

sidesplit1958

two-up-and-two-downer1958

two-up two-down1958

semi-det1960

A-frame1963

townhouse1965

tri-level1965

link house1968

split1970

dormer bungalow1977

1808 Sydney Gaz. 15 May (advt.) To be let..that pleasant, beautiful, and truly desirable Cottage, belonging to James Williamson..together with the Outhouses, Stable, and a very extensive Garden.

1821 Hobart Town Gaz. 9 May T. A. Lascelles, Esq. for bricks supplied [for] government cottage at New Norfolk.

1849 A. Harris Guide Port Stephens 182 In Australia, the cottage is a central block, surrounded by a verandah (less or more).

1860 E. Macpherson My Experiences in Austral. viii. 142 One of the stock-keepers on the run..entreated us to come to his cottage, or hut, as all bush dwellings are called, though this deserved a better name.

1904 D. B. W. Sladen Playing the Game i. ix. 85 What rich Melbourne people call a cottage—a cottage with a ball-room and billiard-room, and enough bedrooms to take a good slice out of an acre.

1923 D. H. Lawrence Kangaroo ii. 22 More ‘cottages’; that is, bungalows of corrugated iron or brick.

1985 Western Tiers 22 Mar. 11/2 My great granddad..had a ‘cottage’ there before he died. They called everything a cottage those days, didn't they?

2014 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 30 Aug. 8 We have a lot of well preserved Victorian homes—those of classic Italianate style with the extra decorations, down to the tiny little cottages so popular in Prahran, South Yarra, Richmond, Hawthorn, even Yarraville.

†2. A landholding consisting of a cottage (sense 1a) and the land adjoining or associated with it. Obsolete.Not always clearly distinguishable from sense 1a.

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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > a legal holding > [noun] > leasehold land or tenement > types of

pendicle1420

cottage1467

horseman's beda1687

cottagery1697

flatshare1965

1467–8 Rolls of Parl.: Edward IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. June 1467 §8. m. 13 A chief meese..within oure cite of Norwiche, sex cotages or smale meese set in þe parissh of Seint Peter of Mancrofte, within þe same cite, and .xv. acres of arable land.

1558 in L. M. Munby Life & Death in King's Langley (1981) 23 All that my tenemente or catage with a wike and a garideyn plot, now in the tenure of Thomas yverye.

1608 J. Dod & R. Cleaver Plaine Expos. 13th & 14th Chaps. Prov. (xiii. 23) 71 A small tenement or cottage, may be turned into a freehold or Farme.

1615 in J. M. Thomson Registrum Magni Sigilli Scotorum (1892) VII. 426/2 2 cottagias terrarum lie twa cottages of land.

†3. A temporary, movable, or rudimentary shelter resembling a hut, etc. Cf. tabernacle n. 1a. Obsolete.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > [noun] > place of shelter

shroudc1380

receipta1393

recept1423

receptaclec1425

cottage1535

shelterage1632

ambalama1807

receptory1856

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. i. A Y^e doughter of Syon is left alone like a cotage [so 1611; 1885 booth; Ger. heuslin, Hebrew sukkāh] in a vynyearde.

a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) V. 69 In the farther Side of hit I saw ii. veri poore Cotagis for Somer Dayres for Catel.

1578 T. Nicholas tr. F. Lopez de Gómara Pleasant Hist. Conquest W. India 165 The servants of Mutezuma made cotages of straw for the Tamemez or carriers.

1603 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Hist. Descr. Worlde 161 Moouing houses, built vpon wheels like a shepperds cottage.

1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) III. 344 Sometimes I endeavoured to make the savages of my cottage comprehend that I had lost a friend.

†4. In extended use.

a. Any temporary dwelling place or abode, esp. the human body regarded as a vessel for the soul or spirit; also in clay cottage, earthen cottage, etc. Cf. house n.¹ and int. Phrases 3d, tabernacle n. 3c. Obsolete.Perhaps originally with allusion to the ‘houses of clay’ in Job 4:19.

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1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. i. 52 There is no greater absurditie, than for them to glory in their excellencye that do not onely dwell in a cotage of clay [L. tugurium luteum], but also are themselues in parte but earth and ashes.

?1587 R. Southwell Epist. Comfort ix. f. 122^v [Christ] is contented..to abase his maiesty to enter into our soule, dwelling in this cottage of clay, & vnpleasant dungeon.

1650 A. Weldon Court & Char. King James (1651) 123 Surely never so brave parts, and so base and abject a spirit tenanted together in any one earthen cottage.

a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 205 We..may be turned out of these clay cottages at an hours warning.

1692 R. Bentley Confut. Atheism from Origin of World: Pt. I 27 This narrow Cottage of a World.

b. The home of an animal, such as the cell of a bee. Obsolete.

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1568 T. Hill Pleasaunt Instr. Orderinge of Bees vi. f. 5 in Proffitable Arte Gardening (rev. ed.) They frame by a maruelouse skyll and connynve, theyr cotages of waxe.

1576 A. Fleming tr. Socrates in Panoplie Epist. 228 The litle pretie Ant couching closely in her countrie cotage.

1815 J. G. Spurzheim Outl. Physiognom. Syst. vi. 271 No one will maintain, that..the beaver builds a cottage because it has studied the laws of mechanics.

5. Various other types of building.

a. A private holiday home; (also) a house for the use of those staying at a health resort; esp. (a) one of a group of such buildings built specifically for the purpose; (b) U.S. an individual residence built at a fashionable holiday destination, often on a large and sumptuous scale. Cf. cottager n. 3.holiday cottage, summer cottage, etc.: see the first element.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > summer house or holiday house

summer houseOE

pleasure house1590

mahal1610

aestivation1625

summer cottage1638

cottage1805

Swiss cottage1820

summer home1821

casita1822

chalet1853

bathing-box1883

rest home1889

dacha1896

housekeeping cottage1901

weekend cottage1911

weekender1921

bach1940

hafod1952

gite1964

getaway1968

vacation home1969

timeshare1974

share1984

1805 Derby Mercury 4 Apr. It is eligibly situated to the Turnpike Road, and well adapted for erecting Lodging Houses, or Summer Cottages.

1836 Indiana Jrnl. 3 Sept. To the number of cottages now prepared [at Jeffersonville], others will probably be added, with a good hotel, early next spring.

1868 C. H. Sweetser Bk. Summer Resorts iv. 2 Many of the cottages and improved grounds are elaborate and costly.

1914 Nation 17 Sept. 347/3 The life of Bar Harbor is now in the millionaire's cottages.

1972 J. Maass Victorian Home in Amer. vi. 154 (caption) The summer cottage of a Dr. Tucker, a tonic manufacturer, at Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard, about 1885. President Ulysses S. Grant was a house guest here.

1995 Holiday Which? Mar. 119/3 Specialist operators who offer..a good choice of characterful self-catering cottages in inland Andalucia.

2008 Palm Beach Life Dec. 57/3 Kirk's new cottage..sported the same architectural style as the nearby Breakers' cottages, including large porches, bay windows, and a shingled exterior.

b. Any of a group of dwellings for resident patients, pupils, etc., at an institution such as a hospital, school, or the like, typically separated from the main building.

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1863 Brit. & Foreign Medico-chirurg. Rev. Oct. 384 For the purpose of providing additional accommodation.., detached cottages have been erected in the grounds of the Devon Asylum.

1870 Rep. State Superintendent Public Instr. State Kansas 89 Let the cottages [in the school grounds] be constructed on a simple..plan... Each house..will accommodate from eight to twelve pupils.

1901 Amer. Jrnl. Insanity 57 400 Two infirmary cottages, one for each sex, each to accommodate thirty patients.

1977 M. Cristofer Shadow Box i. 25 They moved him down to these cottages because there's nothing they can do for him in the hospital.

1995 D. Musick Introd. Sociol. Juvenile Delinquency 261 Today most long-term incarceratories in the U.S. house children in cottages.

2010 John Catt Guide Internat. Schools (ed. 8) 85 First-years live in a large, comfortable family house while the upper sixth live independently in attractive cottages in the school grounds.

c. British slang. A public toilet.Chiefly with reference to the use of public toilets by men to solicit or engage in sex with other men; cf. cottage v. 2, cottaging n. 3. See also Compounds 1d.

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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > [noun] > water-closet or lavatory > public

vespasienne1834

public lavatory1880

chalet1881

public toilet1895

rear1902

cottage1909

comfort station1923

public convenience1938

vespasian1938

facility1939

superloo1965

1909 J. R. Ware Passing Eng. Victorian Era 94/2 Cottages (Fast youths' [slang]), Vespasians; retiring points for half a minute.

1949 C. Allen Sexual Perversions & Abnormalities (ed. 2) viii. 291 These patients have a strange jargon in which..lavatories are ‘cottages’.

1952 G. Westwood Society & Homosexual xx. 126 I ran into Norman in a cottage... She wasn't trading but I'm sure she's T. B. H.

1987 Sunday Times (Nexis) 29 Nov. If you are a member of parliament and sleeping with somebody else's wife or cruising the cottages..the Whips know about it.

2002 16th London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival (B.F.I. programme booklet) 18/3 A whirlwind tour of some of London's finest cottages with their ‘Glory Holes’ and pungent aromas.

†6. = cottage piano n. at Compounds 4. Obsolete.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > stringed keyboards > [noun] > pianoforte > types of piano

grand pianoforte1784

square pianoforte1787

grand piano1795

cottage pianoforte1816

cottage piano1824

table piano1827

table pianoforte1827

tin kettle1827

grand1830

piccolo1831

Broadwood1832

semi-grand1835

pianino1848

cottage1850

square piano1853

street piano1855

upright1860

pianette1862

digitorium1866

Steinway1875

baby grand1879

square1882

tin pan1882

honky-tonk piano1934

minipiano1934

spinet1936

prepared piano1940

ravalement1959

rinky-tink1961

miniature1974

Mozart piano1980

1850 C. Dickens Let. 4 Mar. (1988) VI. 53 Each girl [had] a grand, down stairs—and a cottage in her bedroom—besides a small guitar in the wash-house.

1880 Daily News 7 Oct. 4/3 D'Almaine's pianos..Trichord cottages, from hire or taken in exchange, £10 to £12.

1902 H. Quilter What's What 1005/2 The humble ‘Cottage’ piano is now much neglected by high-class manufacturers... Broadwood's cheapest Cottage is 40 guineas.

Compounds

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a. General attributive, as cottage door, cottage roof, etc.

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1584 W. Averell Dyall for Dainty Darlings sig. Civ It fortuned the aged Mother, out of her cottage windowe, espied one daye, in the house of her Sonne, meate spitted, and layde to the fyre, ready to be roasted.

1599 L. Barker Christs Checke to Peter vi. sig. X^v When sinfull mortall man, may..receiue and entertaine vnder his Cottage roofe..what man hee will.

1647 R. Stapleton tr. Juvenal Sixteen Satyrs 67 Is there no hole, no bridge, no cottage-nooke?

1706 J. Cockburn Humane Life Displayed 22 Stand at a Cottage door, there shall be heard the noise of Vexation and Quarrelling.

1726 J. Thomson Winter 6 The Cottage-Swain Hangs o'er th' enlivening Blaze.

1788 J. Hurdis Village Curate 40 See where the sky-blue periwinkle climbs Up to the cottage eaves.

1796 J. Farington Diary 4 Apr. (1978) II. 519 I recommended to Westall to bring his two pictures of Cottage Children from bottom of the room and place them on each side the Duke of Leeds.

1798 J. Malton (title) An Essay on British Cottage Architecture..comprising Dwellings for the Peasant and Farmer, and Retreats for the Gentleman.

1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab iii. 41 Sleep they less sweetly on the cottage thatch, Than on the dome of kings?

1819 W. Wordsworth Grief, thou hast Lost in Misc. Sonn in Wks. (1888) 576/1 Now that the cottage Spinning-wheel is mute.

1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist II. xxxiii. 258 It was quite a cottage-room, with a lattice-window.

1859 W. M. Thackeray Virginians i The Cottage-gables glared in sunshine.

1876 C. M. Yonge Womankind xxxii. 293 We all of us know of people in all ranks, cottage-women especially, who are..looked up to, trusted, called in.

1904 W. B. Yeats Let. 2 Jan. (1994) III. 510 When you write again, if you do, you might tell me what the cottage scene Fay got made for Colm's play turned out like.

1935 Pop. Sci. Monthly July 64/1 (caption) Wooden curtain pole fastened in a corner of a cottage room to hold clothes hangers.

1972 New York 11 Sept. 88/1 Informal cottage living.

1989 New Scientist 21 Oct. 84/3 The car shot backwards, demolishing a cottage wall.

2002 C. Knox tr. E. van Heerden Long Silence Mario Salviati i. v. 22 She pulled the cottage door shut behind her, locked it carefully,..and went out through the front gate.

b. attributive. Designating furniture of small scale or light construction; designating this style of furniture.

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1798 Times 13 Feb. 4/3 Japanned rout and cottage chairs, secretaries and bookcases.

1799 Morning Chron. 10 Aug. For the accommodation of the company, cottage chairs, matted with rush, were provided.

1809 Morning Chron. 17 May (advt.) The most elegant and cheapest cottage-bedstead and furniture in London.

1834 Hampshire Advertiser 5 July (advt.) Sets of mahogany and ebonized trafalgar chairs, chimney glass, cottage sofa, loo, card, and quartetto tables.

1876 Newcastle Courant 7 July 8/3 He..remarked that the pitman's cottage style of seating the church was much against the fine effect of the architecture.

1883 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. II. 516/2 Cottage-chair, a form of chair adapted for comfort rather than show, and capable of being carried on to the lawn, on picnics, &c.; a folding chair.

1905 Keith's Mag. July 23/1 Against the stair wall, place a long cottage settee of grey-stained wood, cushioned with green burlaps.

1951 Good Housek. Home Encycl. (1956) 106/2 This class of furniture (sometimes called ‘cottage’ Chippendale, Hepplewhite and so on).

1976 Denbighshire Free Press 8 Dec. 16/4 (advt.) 4 piece Cottage suite. Brown vinyl, £30 o.n.o.

2001 W. Dunford Making Killing 257 When there was no answer at the door, we sat on the two wooden cottage chairs permanently planted on the front porch.

2014 P. Hogan Pleasure & Calling (2015) 269 I lie with my knees slightly bent on Mrs Wade's cottage sofa, with its polished wooden arms and ornate, quilted throw.

c. attributive. Designating a style of book decoration, common in the late 17th century, in which the design of the cover of a book features a panel whose upper and lower edges are suggestive of the outline of a low-pitched gable or roof; executed in this style.

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society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > type of binding > [adjective]

full-bound1705

super-extra1774

half-bound1775

Etruscan1792

antique1794

Russia-bound1808

vellum-bound1836

vellum-covered1836

quarter-bound1842

cloth-bound1860

limp1863

cottage1874

monastic1880

parchment-bound1881

yapped1882

all along1888

Grolieresque1889

Maioli1890

perfect1890

treed calf1892

Lyonnais1893

hardback1894

dos-à-dos1952

perfect bound1960

spiral-bound1961

spiral1977

1874 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 29 May 684/1 A specimen of the English school, of the style known as ‘cottage binding’ of 120 years ago.

1880 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 16 Apr. 467/2 Small 4to, printed from copper-plates; bound in blue morocco, tooled and gilt, in the cottage style.

1982 H. M. Nixon Brit. Bookbindings presented by K. H. Oldaker 25 Oxford binding by Roger Bartlett, c. 1680. Reddish-brown turkey, gold-tooled to an elaborate cottage design.

1991 L. Avrin Scribes, Script & Bks. xiii. 319 Samuel Mearne.., Charles II's binder, introduced an architectural variant known as cottage style, a triangular pediment at the top and bottom of a rectangular panel.

d. attributive. slang. In sense 5c; esp. designating a man who uses public toilets for sexual encounters with other men. Chiefly in cottage queen.Compare cottager n. 4.

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1971 S. Houghton Current Prison Slang (MS notebk.) (O.E.D. Archive) 15 Cottage-Mary, homosexual who haunts public lavatories.

1984 ‘Pickles’ Queens 184 Sometimes it's hard, heavy sex, and other times just tossing each other off, then out to the loo and washing the hands, like suburban cottage-queens!

1990 New Statesman & Society 30 Nov. 24/4 The number of offences of ‘indecency between males’ (which almost exclusively applies to this so-called ‘cottage’ sex) recorded by police in 1989 was 2,022 for the whole year.

2002 C. Perriam in J. Labanyi Constructing Identity Contemp. Spain x. 163 The intellectual whose partner is a frivolous shopaholic and cottage queen using El Corte Inglés and the nearby toilets for both activities.

C2. Locative.

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1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. xxx. 207 Such a Girl as this, Cottage-born.

1789 W. Woty Poet. Amusem. 44 When first I ken'd The cottage-living Matron.

1827 J. Keble Christian Year I. xvii. 67 Thou here didst sojourn, Cottage-born.

1904 M. B. Adams Mod. Cottage Archit. 9 Experience has proved that Cottage dwellers..will not stop in an old-fashioned family-room dwelling when they can obtain the option of going into a modern one provided with a ‘parlour’.

2014 Daily Post (N. Wales) (Nexis) 28 June 6 David Lloyd George, the cottage-born boy who lapped up learning at the feet of his uncle Lloyd and became a champion of social progress at Westminster.

C3. Objective.

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1787 R. Burns Poems (new ed.) 204 And hail'd the morning with a cheer, A cottage-rousing craw.

1812 Morning Chron. 18 Sept. They have promised me to do what they can towards the amendment of cottage building.

1980 S. W. Martins Great Estate at Work v. 218 The cottage building of the late earl had by no means solved the housing problem.

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cottage allotment n. now rare an allotment (allotment n. 2b) let out to the resident of a cottage.

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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > [noun] > cottage allotment

allotment1725

cottage allotment1823

allotment garden1837

1823 Plan for Relief of Agric. Poor 10 That the rector..be requested..to give up or waive any and every claim for tythe on the cottage allotment.

1837 Penny Cycl. VIII. 88/2 The object of cottage allotments is to increase the resources of the labourer.

1932 Irish Times 23 Feb. 5/6 A large number [of tenants] were set down as having from half an acre to ten acres in addition to the cottage allotments.

cottage bonnet n. now chiefly historical a woman's close-fitting straw bonnet of a type fashionable in the early 19th century.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > woman's bonnet > types of > other

dulcimer?1767

cottage bonnet1794

cabriolet1797

skyscraper1800

kettle-holder1813

basket-bonnet1824

kiss-me-quick1845

tilt-bonnet1874

granny bonnet1879

toque1881

rain bonnet1909

1794 Times 1 Apr. (advt.) [She] had on when she left her home, a blue Stormont gown, and an old cottage bonnet trimmed with blue ribbon.

1826 M. R. Mitford Our Village II. 194 A sudden puff of wind took at once my cottage-bonnet.

1849 C. Brontë Shirley II. ii. 49 The little cottage bonnet and the silk scarf.

1908 Illustr. London News 29 Aug. 314/1 The revival for motoring wear of the pretty little ‘cottage bonnet’ of Early Victorian days.

1941 Country Life 24 May p. xxiv/2 The bonnets that our great-grandmothers wore when young with a pretty raised brim over the forehead—‘cottage bonnets’ I think they were called.

2013 T. Chevalier Last Runaway 35 A cottage bonnet with a deep crown much like Honor's own, but with white feathers lining the inside rim rather than the usual white ruffles.

cottage country n. Canadian a rural area with many holiday homes.

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1967 Winnipeg Free Press 18 Sept. 15/3 Black flies are not a problem south of the cottage country.

1976 Toronto Star 22 May a1/4 The automobile headlights on Highway 400 last night looked like a river of gold flowing north from Metro to Muskoka cottage country.

2001 S. Kane Virtual Freedom i. 5 If you remember the turnoff, you pass the tumble-down barns on your way to cottage country.

cottage farmer n. a person engaged in farming on a small scale; cf. cottage farming n.

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?1797 J. Baker Picturesque Guide to Local Beauties of Wales II. 77 The vallies..are well peopled by small freeholders and cottage farmers.

1832 J. Clare Lett. (1985) 561 My desire is to..get out of debt before I leave here & to keep out when I commence a cottage farmer—the place..keeps two cows.

1942 Bks. Abroad 16 257 The poor village girl and the independent cottage farmer emerging as heroes of monumental stature.

2017 Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, Calif.) (Nexis) 28 Feb. The only exception would be on rural-residential parcels of two acres or more where cottage farmers could grow up to 25 plants.

cottage farming n. now somewhat rare farming conducted on a small scale.

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c1831 J. Clare Lett. (1985) 550 I am going to leave here &..commence cottage farming.

1832 Courier 23 July The happy results of this cottage farming are apparent in every parish.

1951 Econ. Hist. Rev. 3 383 A surrounding belt of land was to be reserved in perpetuity for co-operative or cottage farming allotments.

1995 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 9 Aug. As far as I know, there are only two or three of us who hand-pick the fruit, and we aim at a boutique market... I call it cottage farming.

cottage-fried potatoes n. U.S. potatoes cut into round slices and fried; = cottage fries n.Cf. French fried potatoes n. at French adj. and n. Compounds 1b, home-fried potatoes n. at home n.¹ and adj. Compounds 2.

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1901 Suppl. Typogr. Jrnl. 15 Sept. 91/2 Supper: Hamburger steak; cottage fried potatoes; pickled beets; rhubarb sauce; hot rolls.

1950 Ottumwa (Iowa) Daily Courier 30 June 5/4 Thought must be given to choosing accompaniment for the spicy meat balls... Cottage fried potatoes would be appropriate.

2004 Santa Fe New Mexican (Nexis) 19 Nov. p72 Outstanding at the Bull Ring are the boneless rib-eye and the cottage-fried potatoes.

cottage fries n. U.S. potatoes cut into round slices and fried or baked until brown; = cottage-fried potatoes n.Cf. French fries n. at French adj. and n. Compounds 1b, home fries n. at home n.¹ and adj. Compounds 2.

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1930 Canton (Ohio) Daily News 6 Jan. 9/2 The cottage fries..[are] prepared over a recipe that leaves a tasty brown hardness of shell that is especially delectable.

1979 Gourmet Dec. 18/2 The accompaniments..include onion rings, tomato, and..cottage fries, thick mealy-centered ovals of fried potato that are delicious.

2016 B. Lingle Fries! 52 Rounds, cottage fries, home fries..[are] sliced flat and fat, thus leaving an appreciable amount of vegetable on the inside. The hockey puck of fries.

cottage garden n. (originally) a garden adjoining a cottage; (later sometimes) spec. a (usually small) garden kept in an informal style, and typically stocked with colourful flowering plants.

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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > [noun] > other types of garden

grounda1500

knot-garden1519

back-garden1535

summer garden1589

spring garden1612

spring gardena1625

water gardena1626

walled gardena1631

wildernessa1644

window garden1649

botanic garden1662

Hanging Gardens1705

winter garden1736

cottage garden1765

Vauxhall1770

English garden1771

wall garden1780

chinampa1787

moat garden1826

gardenesque1832

sunk garden1835

roof garden1844

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wild garden1852

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beer-garden1863

Japanese garden1863

bog-garden1883

Italian garden1883

community garden1884

sink garden1894

trough garden1935

sand garden1936

Zen garden1937

hydroponicum1938

tub garden1974

rain garden1994

1765 J. Langhorne Corr. Theodosius & Constantia (new ed.) x. 95 (heading) Written in a Cottage-garden, at a Village in Lorrain.

1849 C. Brontë Shirley III. xiv. 314 I can line yonder barren Hollow with lines of cottages, and rows of cottage-gardens.

1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. at Cut and come again A very prolific variety of kale or winter greens; much grown in cottage gardens.

1958 V. Sackville-west Even More for your Garden 87 A woman who, with her husband, created out of nothing the sort of garden we should all like to have, a cottage garden on a slightly larger scale than the average cottage garden.

1995 Country Living May 77 Ask your best friend..to name her favorite garden, and chances are she'll say ‘a cottage garden’. What she's thinking of is a luscious, fragrant plot filled with old-fashioned annuals and perennials planted in somewhat chaotic fashion.

2008 U. McGovern Lost Crafts (2009) 209 However, on a less grand scale, growing your own food—in the cottage garden, strip field, allotment or elsewhere—was, until the modern era, an essential part of survival.

cottage gardening n. the action or process of creating, tending, or cultivating a cottage garden.

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1817 Scots Mag. May 375/2 The Cottager's Companion, intended to instruct the labouring poor in the art of cottage gardening.

1903 Garden 24 Oct. 278/2 The increasing demand in country districts that the schoolmaster shall be competent to teach the elements of cottage gardening.

1909 Garden Mag. Dec. 229/2 The American style of cottage gardening must grow out of the fact that our labourers do not have as much time for gardening as the English.

1992 in A. Ravetz Place of Home (1995) ix. 176/1 The first [gardening style] had evolved from the English vernacular tradition of rural cottage gardening... The cottager's plot, with its fusion of vegetables, fruit and flowers was a model of efficiency and aesthetics.

2008 Sacramento (Calif.) Bee (Nexis) 13 Sept. d1 The thatched roof..combined with the relaxed yet abundant gardening style epitomizes cottage gardening.

cottage home n. (a) a home in the form of a cottage; (b) British a charitable institution providing accommodation in the form of cottages (now historical).

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > types of building generally > [noun] > building devoted to charitable object

charity-house1758

institution1792

cottage home1797

institute1829

warehouse1970

1797 R. Southey Poems 7 The journey o'er and every peril past Beholds his little cottage-home at last.

1828 F. D. Hemans Homes of Eng. in Records of Woman (ed. 2) 171 The Cottage Homes of England! By thousands on her plains.

1868 Birmingham Daily Post 5 Feb. 6/4 I send herewith a copy of the memorandum and articles of association of a society recently incorporated under the name of ‘Evans's Cottage Homes’. The object of the association is the management of a charity..for providing cottage homes and annuities for ladies of reduced fortunes.

1882 S. A. Barnett in H. Barnett Canon S. A. B. (1918) I. xi. 124 Mrs. Barnett..opened a Cottage Home in which they spend three months before going into service.

1904 Pop. Sci. Monthly Jan. 252 These tenants might have bought a good farm for less than the clerk in the city would pay for his cottage home.

1916 Amer. Med. July 542/1 A cottage home for the treatment of valvular disease in boys.

2000 G. Towers Shelter is not Enough 19 Everywhere else the new housing was in the form of cottage homes on greenfield ex-urban sites.

2015 J. Cooper Protestant Orphan Society 213 In July 1908, Webb visited Sunnyside Home, the DPOS affiliated cottage home in Kilternan.

cottage lecture n. now historical a sermon or other religious address preached in a private home rather than in a church, chapel, etc.

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cottage lecture1822

1822 J. Jones (title) Cottage lectures.

1828 T. S. Grimshawe Mem. L. Richmond (1829) vii. 68 His weekly labours commenced with what he called his Tuesday-night cottage lecture, from its being held successively in the cottages of the poor.

1858 ‘G. Eliot’ Janet's Repentance xi, in Scenes Clerical Life II. 200 Three sermons on Sunday, a night-school for young men on Tuesday, a cottage-lecture on Thursday.

1915 G. Hodges Henry Codman Potter ii. 31 The lay-reader took the superintendence of the Sunday School, organized a choir, and began cottage lectures in the outlying farmhouses, where he preached his own sermons.

2008 Eng. Hist. Rev. 123 1584 John Atkinson walked between eight and nine miles every Sunday to maintain a regular service in his church and two cottage lectures in outlying districts.

cottage organ n. a small reed organ, typically with pedal-operated bellows; a harmonium.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > types of organ > [noun] > reed-organ

cottage organ1836

aeoline1840

melodeon1844

melodium1846

harmonium1847

reed organ1851

organ-harmonium1864

American organ1869

harmonicon1876

harmonica1880

organ1880

vocalion1882

squeeze-box1909

melodicon1938

1836 Morning Chron. 6 June 8/2 (advt.) The handsome household furniture, nearly new; rosewood sideboard,..set of chairs, cottage organ, [etc.].

1863 Daily Milwaukee (Wisconsin) News 5 Sept. (advt.) Cottage organ, manufactured by J. Estey, of Brattleboro, Vt.

1900 C. C. Munn Uncle Terry 12 A small cottage organ graced the platform, upon which an antique desk did duty as pulpit.

1934 Forum & Century (N.Y.) Aug. 126/1 Ira Slimpin's new wife..at the cottage organ, playing the wedding march. That was the signal to start down.

2014 South Wales Echo (Nexis) 11 July 22 As well as cathedrals John has played at Oxbridge colleges and churches, practising at home in Thornhill on his second-hand 110-year-old cottage organ.

cottage piano n. a small upright piano.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > stringed keyboards > [noun] > pianoforte > types of piano

grand pianoforte1784

square pianoforte1787

grand piano1795

cottage pianoforte1816

cottage piano1824

table piano1827

table pianoforte1827

tin kettle1827

grand1830

piccolo1831

Broadwood1832

semi-grand1835

pianino1848

cottage1850

square piano1853

street piano1855

upright1860

pianette1862

digitorium1866

Steinway1875

baby grand1879

square1882

tin pan1882

honky-tonk piano1934

minipiano1934

spinet1936

prepared piano1940

ravalement1959

rinky-tink1961

miniature1974

Mozart piano1980

1824 New-Eng. Galaxy 18 June A keyed instrument, similar to the cottage piano in appearance.

1926 E. F. Benson in Windsor Mag. Aug. 260/1 I'm going to make a change in this room, Bobby... I'm going to hoof out the boudoir-grand and have a cottage piano. Makes more room.

2003 Weekend Austral. (Nexis) 18 Oct. b2 It was 1904 when my nanna Rosina..visited Allan's music store and selected her much-coveted purchase, a cottage piano.

cottage pianoforte n. now rare = cottage piano n.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > stringed keyboards > [noun] > pianoforte > types of piano

grand pianoforte1784

square pianoforte1787

grand piano1795

cottage pianoforte1816

cottage piano1824

table piano1827

table pianoforte1827

tin kettle1827

grand1830

piccolo1831

Broadwood1832

semi-grand1835

pianino1848

cottage1850

square piano1853

street piano1855

upright1860

pianette1862

digitorium1866

Steinway1875

baby grand1879

square1882

tin pan1882

honky-tonk piano1934

minipiano1934

spinet1936

prepared piano1940

ravalement1959

rinky-tink1961

miniature1974

Mozart piano1980

1816 Morning Post 9 Sept. The cottage Piano-forte has two pedals, silk front as good as new, cost 45 guineas, for 32 guineas.

1883 Crystal Stories No. 24. 137/1 My little companion cried ‘oh, pianny!’ and ran to a cottage pianoforte, which stood invitingly open.

1953 Manch. Guardian 28 Mar. 8/2 (advt.) Sale by auction of furniture and effects, including cottage pianoforte by Spencer, mahogany cabinet gramophone, [etc.].

cottage pie n. a dish of minced beef or (occasionally) other meat which has been topped with mashed potato and then baked or browned.Cf. shepherd's pie n. at shepherd n. Compounds 2b, which is similar but often made with lamb or mutton.

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > meat dishes > [noun] > other meat dishes

langue de boeuf1381

sawgeatc1390

pome-garneza1450

olive1598

potato pie1600

capilotade1611

carbonade1651

beef à la mode1653

Scots collops1657

Scotch collops1664

galantine1702

grenadine1706

scotched collops1708

à la mode beef1723

miroton1725

German duck1785

cottage pie1791

chartreuse1806

timbale1824

sanders1827

rognon1828

rolliche1830

schalet1846

old thing1848

Brunswick stew1855

scrapple1855

moussaka1862

cannelon1875

crépinette1877

shepherd's pie1877

chop suey1888

estouffade1889

noisette1891

chaudfroid1892

patty1904

boeuf bourguignon1915

sukiyaki1920

bœuf stroganoff1932

bœuf1936

flauta1938

rumaki1941

rendang1948

pastitsio1950

keema1955

bulgogi1958

moo shu1962

Melba1964

shabu-shabu1970

carpaccio1974

al pastor1977

gosht1982

parmo1999

parmesan2003

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1791 J. Woodforde Diary 29 Aug. (1927) III. 295 Dinner to day, Cottage-Pye and rost Beef.

1874 M. Hooper Little Dinners 60 The trimmings of the cutlets will make an excellent cottage-pie for the family dinner.

1985 National Law Jrnl. (U.S.) 13 May 23/2 Children will have a chance to eat a real English cottage pie at Woburn Abbey.

2015 A. Sugden Perfect Catch vii. 145 Sounds like I'd better make you an appetizer while the cottage pie is heating.

cottage pudding n. North American a dessert consisting of cake covered in a sweet sauce.

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1857 Flag of Our Union 21 Mar. 95 Cottage Pudding. Rub a teaspoonful of cream-tartar in one pint of flour [etc.]..; the sauce is..one cup butter, one of sugar; spice and flavor to suit fancy.

1906 Good Housek. Nov. 548/4 Dinner..Clear soup..Hamburg steak loaf with tomato sauce..Cottage pudding with chocolate sauce.

1982 Globe & Mail (Canada) (Nexis) 29 Sept. Use [grape juice concentrate] in punches, or for sauce for cottage pudding.

2006 S. Taggart Commune x. 109 We're having... your mother's recipe for steamed cottage pudding with caramel sauce for dessert.

cottage right n. now historical a limited form of right of access to common land which pertained to ownership or occupation of a cottage; a plot of land conferring such a right.

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1714 in G. F. Dow Rec. Salem Commoners (1903) 16 William Gedney..for his Grandfathers Clarks farme house & Cottage Right there... John Mackmalion [prob. read Mackmahon] for his fathers house he Claimes a Cottage Right in his Land for M^rs Felton.

1729 in C. A. Avery Averell-Averill-Avery Family (1906) I. 141 A Cottage Right (so called) containing two acres, and being ye 21st lot in sd Cottage Rights in Topsfield [in Massachusetts].

1749 London Evening Post 14 Mar. (advt.) A Manor..consisting of the Manor-House, a Dovecoat, a large Barn,..three Cottage-Rights, and about ninety computed Acres of enclosed Pasture Land.

1831 Times 8 July Upwards of 300 acres of arable and sward land, part freehold and part copyhold, with cottage rights.

1883 Hist. Coll. Essex Inst. XX. 163 Some of these poor people [in Salem, Massachusetts] were granted house-lots, to be held during the town's pleasure. These so-called ‘cottage-rights’ were akin to the shanty-rights that are sometimes temporarily allowed to Irish squatters along the lines of our American railways.

1929 Evening Huronite (S. Dakota) 24 May 2/2 It was..determined that the draws and bayous about the lake would be retained as common property and that cottage rights would be given only to the hills about the lake.

2001 Past & Present 171 119 If most of the cottage rights belonged to large estates then by implication labourers owned few of them.

cottage roll n. North American (now chiefly Canadian) a type of ham made from a piece of boneless pork shoulder, typically cured in brine with the addition of sugar and spices.

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1903 G. G. Hutchinson Licenses Dairy & Food Commissioner 1902 (Pennsylvania Dept. Agric. Bull. No. 110) 119 Hamburg steak, cottage roll, veal loaf [etc.].

1938 Belmont (Manitoba) News 27 Oct. Simmer cottage roll in gently boiling water until tender. Cool in the liquid in which it was cooked.

2012 Edmonton (Alberta) Jrnl. (Nexis) 4 Apr. e3 Hams are a great—and tasty—convenience... Cottage roll hams and pickled hams, of course, do require a thorough cooking.

cottage window n. Architecture (chiefly U.S.) a type of double-hung sash window in which the top sash is shorter than the bottom one, and which often contains decorative features such as lead-light work, stained glass, etc.Popular esp. in the first quarter of the 20th cent.For the earlier, general use of cottage window see Compounds 1a.

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1908 San Antonio (Texas) Gaz. 11 Jan. 8/4 (advt.) A new six-room bungalow. Has porcelain bath and reception hall, large cottage windows, back and front porches.

1988 H. Gottfried & J. Jennings Amer. Vernacular Buildings & Interiors, 1870–1960 76 (caption) Cottage windows—the quintessential window for cottages..; variety of patterns in the top light, including diamond glass, leaded art glass, and leaded bevel plate.

2017 States News Service (Nexis) 16 Oct. Distinguishing exterior features of the house include a wraparound porch with pedimented entries [and]..cottage windows with leaded glass in a diamond and oval design.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	cottage
释义	cottagen. Brit. /ˈkɒtɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈkɑdɪdʒ/ Forms: Middle English cotag, Middle English–1500s cotage, Middle English– cottage, 1500s catage, 1500s coittage (Scottish), 1500s cotige. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French cotage. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman cotage a small rural dwelling house or its associated landholding (late 13th cent. or earlier), transferred use of Anglo-Norman and Old French cotage , adjective (in cens cotage rent for a cottage or similar non-aristocratic tenement: late 13th cent. in a source from Normandy), (noun) rent for a cottage (beginning of the 14th cent. in Anglo-Norman; Middle French cotage , adjective and noun) < either English cot n.¹ or one of its Germanic cognates + Anglo-Norman and Old French -age -age suffix. Compare post-classical Latin cotagium cottage (tenement or building) (frequently from 1200 in British sources), cottage tenure (1270 in a British source).With the French and Latin senses relating to rent or tenure compare the following, apparently isolated use of the English word:a1700 MS Ashmole 837 in F. J. Furnivall Queene Elizabethes Achademy (1869) 38 An Esquire..is he that in times past was Costrell to a Knight..; whereof euery knight had twoe at the least [in] attendance upon him, in respect of the fee, For they held their land of the Knight by Cottage, as the Knight held his of the King by Knight service. The Anglo-Norman and Middle French word fell out of use after the 14th cent., but the English word was subsequently borrowed into French as cottage small rural dwelling house (1754, earliest with reference to England), small elegant country house (1842; compare sense 1b); compare cottage orné n. 1. a. A small house, typically simple or basic in construction, such as is, or was formerly, intended to be occupied by a farm labourer, villager, miner, fisherman, etc. Cf. cot n.¹ 1.Historically the term is found first applied to the dwelling places or holdings (see also sense 2) which under the feudal system were occupied by individuals classed as cottars, cottiers, cotsets, or coterells (see these words), and by the labourers of a farmstead. Dwellings for the labouring classes in both rural and urban districts were, under this name, the subject of various legal enactments, such as the Erection of Cottages Act (31 Eliz. I. c. 7, 1588; repealed by 15 Geo. III. c. 32, 1775), and, when under a certain rental, were exempted from paying church rate, poor rate, etc. With the disappearance of legal regulations and exemptions the term has become more vague in its application (cf. sense 1b), although it continues to be applied in the narrower sense to buildings which were formerly so called.cob cottage, railway cottage, etc.: see the first element. tied cottage: see tied adj.¹ 2b. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > small house > small ( and humble) house cotc893 cotlif1001 cotea1034 cratchc1325 shiel1338 cottagec1405 cot-housec1550 cell1577 shiel-house1804 c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Nun's Priest's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 2 A poore widwe..Was whilom dwellynge in a narwe cotage. a1450 (c1435) J. Lydgate Life SS. Edmund & Fremund (Harl.) l. 185 in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1881) 2nd Ser. 417 (MED) Aldare..with his wiff in a smal cotage Ther houshold heeld. ?1518 A. Barclay Fyfte Eglog sig. A^v At this same season, two herdes, fresshe of age At tyme apoynted, met bothe in one cotage. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 440 Thys yere, of an euill fauoured olde house or cotage was the Guyldhall in London buylded and finished. 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice i. ii. 14 If to do were as easie as to know what were good to do, Chappels had beene Churches, and poore mens cottages Princes Pallaces. View more context for this quotation 1612 S. Daniel First Pt. Hist. Eng. ii. 75 The English lived loose, in little homely cottages, where they spent all their reuenewes in good fare, caring for little other gaiety at all. 1658 J. Hewitt Repentance & Conversion 195 The Peasant that from his loamy cottage is carried prisoner to a stately Castle. 1722 D. Defoe Relig. Courtship i. ii. 63 It's a sorry Thief would rob a Cottage. 1775 N. Kent Hints to Gentlemen 230 We are apt to look upon cottages as incumbrances, and clogs to our property; when, in fact, those who occupy them are the very nerves and sinews of agriculture. 1840 S. S. Ellis Sons of Soil p. xii The agricultural labourer has a feeling of property, not only in his own cottage and garden, but in his master's farm. 1872 E. Peacock Mabel Heron II. i. 4 Mrs. Heron took her round to all the labourers' cottages. a1935 W. Holtby South Riding (1936) i. i. 15 Poor people lived in cottages; the Carnes lived in a Hall, which was the biggest house for miles around. 1937 Times 22 Nov. 20/6 It is always calving time and pigging time; the tied cottage is..essential to keep the necessary man on top of hs job. 1966 Life 16 Sept. 126/1 Sharmat's peasant cottage is about half a mile from the village center on a five-acre plot of land. 2003 Islands Mar. 82/2 The original cottages would probably not have had either running water or electricity. 2016 Sunday Tel. 31 July (Living section) 15/1 Picture-perfect fishermen's cottages in all colours of the rainbow. b. More generally: any modestly sized house, most commonly one in a rural district; any house which is regarded as having a rustic or bucolic character. See also cottage orné n. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > small house mousetrap1727 cottage1765 maisonette1785 houselet1802 matchbox1920 1765 H. Walpole Let. 23 Aug. in Corr. (1941) X. 168 My new cottage..is to have nothing Gothic about it, nor pretend to call cousins with the mansion-house. 1799 S. T. Coleridge & R. Southey Devil's Thoughts in Morning Post & Gazetteer 6 Sept. A cottage with a double coach-house, A cottage of gentility. 1811 J. Austen Sense & Sensibility I. vi. 63 As a house, Barton Cottage, though small, was comfortable and compact; but as a cottage it was defective, for the building was regular, the roof was tiled, the window shutters were not painted green, nor were the walls covered with honeysuckles. 1845 Penny Cycl. Suppl. I. 426 The term cottage has for some time past been in vogue as a particular designation for small country residences and detached suburban houses, adapted to a moderate scale of living, yet with all due attention to comfort and refinement. 1884 C. Reade Perilous Secret II. xviii. 106 This cottage, then, was in reality something between a villa and a cottage; it resembled a villa in this, that the rooms were lofty, [etc.]. 1936 Times 8 Jan. 11 The English..are apt..to put things like ‘church’ and ‘cottage’ into the category of the beautiful, and things like ‘bungalow’ and ‘pylon’ into the category of the ugly... It may be the same building, whether it be called ‘cottage’ or ‘bungalow’, but [etc.]. 1998 E. M. Orsten From Anschluss to Albion vi. 78 The so called ‘cottage’ in which we lived was really a solid, two-storey farm house. c. Australian (a) Any detached house. Now rare. (b) A small single-storeyed suburban house, typically one built in the 19th or early 20th century. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > house of specific shape or style hall-house1467 longhouse1643 bungalow1676 single housea1684 tower-house1687 villa1755 box1773 cottage orné1774 villarette1792 mews1805 cottage1808 terrace house1817 casita1822 villa dwelling1833 villa residence1833 box-house1846 six-roomer1853 terrace1854 tembe1860 moat house1871 parlour house1871 row house1871 salt-box1876 trullo1898 townhouse1900 colonial1903 semi1912 Cape Cod1916 bungaloid1927 semi-detached1928 ranchette1938 solar house1946 rambler1947 rancher1950 ranch1951 tunnel-back1957 sidesplit1958 two-up-and-two-downer1958 two-up two-down1958 semi-det1960 A-frame1963 townhouse1965 tri-level1965 link house1968 split1970 dormer bungalow1977 1808 Sydney Gaz. 15 May (advt.) To be let..that pleasant, beautiful, and truly desirable Cottage, belonging to James Williamson..together with the Outhouses, Stable, and a very extensive Garden. 1821 Hobart Town Gaz. 9 May T. A. Lascelles, Esq. for bricks supplied [for] government cottage at New Norfolk. 1849 A. Harris Guide Port Stephens 182 In Australia, the cottage is a central block, surrounded by a verandah (less or more). 1860 E. Macpherson My Experiences in Austral. viii. 142 One of the stock-keepers on the run..entreated us to come to his cottage, or hut, as all bush dwellings are called, though this deserved a better name. 1904 D. B. W. Sladen Playing the Game i. ix. 85 What rich Melbourne people call a cottage—a cottage with a ball-room and billiard-room, and enough bedrooms to take a good slice out of an acre. 1923 D. H. Lawrence Kangaroo ii. 22 More ‘cottages’; that is, bungalows of corrugated iron or brick. 1985 Western Tiers 22 Mar. 11/2 My great granddad..had a ‘cottage’ there before he died. They called everything a cottage those days, didn't they? 2014 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 30 Aug. 8 We have a lot of well preserved Victorian homes—those of classic Italianate style with the extra decorations, down to the tiny little cottages so popular in Prahran, South Yarra, Richmond, Hawthorn, even Yarraville. †2. A landholding consisting of a cottage (sense 1a) and the land adjoining or associated with it. Obsolete.Not always clearly distinguishable from sense 1a. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > a legal holding > [noun] > leasehold land or tenement > types of pendicle1420 cottage1467 horseman's beda1687 cottagery1697 flatshare1965 1467–8 Rolls of Parl.: Edward IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. June 1467 §8. m. 13 A chief meese..within oure cite of Norwiche, sex cotages or smale meese set in þe parissh of Seint Peter of Mancrofte, within þe same cite, and .xv. acres of arable land. 1558 in L. M. Munby Life & Death in King's Langley (1981) 23 All that my tenemente or catage with a wike and a garideyn plot, now in the tenure of Thomas yverye. 1608 J. Dod & R. Cleaver Plaine Expos. 13th & 14th Chaps. Prov. (xiii. 23) 71 A small tenement or cottage, may be turned into a freehold or Farme. 1615 in J. M. Thomson Registrum Magni Sigilli Scotorum (1892) VII. 426/2 2 cottagias terrarum lie twa cottages of land. †3. A temporary, movable, or rudimentary shelter resembling a hut, etc. Cf. tabernacle n. 1a. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > [noun] > place of shelter shroudc1380 receipta1393 recept1423 receptaclec1425 cottage1535 shelterage1632 ambalama1807 receptory1856 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. i. A Y^e doughter of Syon is left alone like a cotage [so 1611; 1885 booth; Ger. heuslin, Hebrew sukkāh] in a vynyearde. a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) V. 69 In the farther Side of hit I saw ii. veri poore Cotagis for Somer Dayres for Catel. 1578 T. Nicholas tr. F. Lopez de Gómara Pleasant Hist. Conquest W. India 165 The servants of Mutezuma made cotages of straw for the Tamemez or carriers. 1603 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Hist. Descr. Worlde 161 Moouing houses, built vpon wheels like a shepperds cottage. 1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) III. 344 Sometimes I endeavoured to make the savages of my cottage comprehend that I had lost a friend. †4. In extended use. a. Any temporary dwelling place or abode, esp. the human body regarded as a vessel for the soul or spirit; also in clay cottage, earthen cottage, etc. Cf. house n.¹ and int. Phrases 3d, tabernacle n. 3c. Obsolete.Perhaps originally with allusion to the ‘houses of clay’ in Job 4:19. ΚΠ 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. i. 52 There is no greater absurditie, than for them to glory in their excellencye that do not onely dwell in a cotage of clay [L. tugurium luteum], but also are themselues in parte but earth and ashes. ?1587 R. Southwell Epist. Comfort ix. f. 122^v [Christ] is contented..to abase his maiesty to enter into our soule, dwelling in this cottage of clay, & vnpleasant dungeon. 1650 A. Weldon Court & Char. King James (1651) 123 Surely never so brave parts, and so base and abject a spirit tenanted together in any one earthen cottage. a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 205 We..may be turned out of these clay cottages at an hours warning. 1692 R. Bentley Confut. Atheism from Origin of World: Pt. I 27 This narrow Cottage of a World. b. The home of an animal, such as the cell of a bee. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1568 T. Hill Pleasaunt Instr. Orderinge of Bees vi. f. 5 in Proffitable Arte Gardening (rev. ed.) They frame by a maruelouse skyll and connynve, theyr cotages of waxe. 1576 A. Fleming tr. Socrates in Panoplie Epist. 228 The litle pretie Ant couching closely in her countrie cotage. 1815 J. G. Spurzheim Outl. Physiognom. Syst. vi. 271 No one will maintain, that..the beaver builds a cottage because it has studied the laws of mechanics. 5. Various other types of building. a. A private holiday home; (also) a house for the use of those staying at a health resort; esp. (a) one of a group of such buildings built specifically for the purpose; (b) U.S. an individual residence built at a fashionable holiday destination, often on a large and sumptuous scale. Cf. cottager n. 3.holiday cottage, summer cottage, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > summer house or holiday house summer houseOE pleasure house1590 mahal1610 aestivation1625 summer cottage1638 cottage1805 Swiss cottage1820 summer home1821 casita1822 chalet1853 bathing-box1883 rest home1889 dacha1896 housekeeping cottage1901 weekend cottage1911 weekender1921 bach1940 hafod1952 gite1964 getaway1968 vacation home1969 timeshare1974 share1984 1805 Derby Mercury 4 Apr. It is eligibly situated to the Turnpike Road, and well adapted for erecting Lodging Houses, or Summer Cottages. 1836 Indiana Jrnl. 3 Sept. To the number of cottages now prepared [at Jeffersonville], others will probably be added, with a good hotel, early next spring. 1868 C. H. Sweetser Bk. Summer Resorts iv. 2 Many of the cottages and improved grounds are elaborate and costly. 1914 Nation 17 Sept. 347/3 The life of Bar Harbor is now in the millionaire's cottages. 1972 J. Maass Victorian Home in Amer. vi. 154 (caption) The summer cottage of a Dr. Tucker, a tonic manufacturer, at Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard, about 1885. President Ulysses S. Grant was a house guest here. 1995 Holiday Which? Mar. 119/3 Specialist operators who offer..a good choice of characterful self-catering cottages in inland Andalucia. 2008 Palm Beach Life Dec. 57/3 Kirk's new cottage..sported the same architectural style as the nearby Breakers' cottages, including large porches, bay windows, and a shingled exterior. b. Any of a group of dwellings for resident patients, pupils, etc., at an institution such as a hospital, school, or the like, typically separated from the main building. ΚΠ 1863 Brit. & Foreign Medico-chirurg. Rev. Oct. 384 For the purpose of providing additional accommodation.., detached cottages have been erected in the grounds of the Devon Asylum. 1870 Rep. State Superintendent Public Instr. State Kansas 89 Let the cottages [in the school grounds] be constructed on a simple..plan... Each house..will accommodate from eight to twelve pupils. 1901 Amer. Jrnl. Insanity 57 400 Two infirmary cottages, one for each sex, each to accommodate thirty patients. 1977 M. Cristofer Shadow Box i. 25 They moved him down to these cottages because there's nothing they can do for him in the hospital. 1995 D. Musick Introd. Sociol. Juvenile Delinquency 261 Today most long-term incarceratories in the U.S. house children in cottages. 2010 John Catt Guide Internat. Schools (ed. 8) 85 First-years live in a large, comfortable family house while the upper sixth live independently in attractive cottages in the school grounds. c. British slang. A public toilet.Chiefly with reference to the use of public toilets by men to solicit or engage in sex with other men; cf. cottage v. 2, cottaging n. 3. See also Compounds 1d. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > [noun] > water-closet or lavatory > public vespasienne1834 public lavatory1880 chalet1881 public toilet1895 rear1902 cottage1909 comfort station1923 public convenience1938 vespasian1938 facility1939 superloo1965 1909 J. R. Ware Passing Eng. Victorian Era 94/2 Cottages (Fast youths' [slang]), Vespasians; retiring points for half a minute. 1949 C. Allen Sexual Perversions & Abnormalities (ed. 2) viii. 291 These patients have a strange jargon in which..lavatories are ‘cottages’. 1952 G. Westwood Society & Homosexual xx. 126 I ran into Norman in a cottage... She wasn't trading but I'm sure she's T. B. H. 1987 Sunday Times (Nexis) 29 Nov. If you are a member of parliament and sleeping with somebody else's wife or cruising the cottages..the Whips know about it. 2002 16th London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival (B.F.I. programme booklet) 18/3 A whirlwind tour of some of London's finest cottages with their ‘Glory Holes’ and pungent aromas. †6. = cottage piano n. at Compounds 4. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > stringed keyboards > [noun] > pianoforte > types of piano grand pianoforte1784 square pianoforte1787 grand piano1795 cottage pianoforte1816 cottage piano1824 table piano1827 table pianoforte1827 tin kettle1827 grand1830 piccolo1831 Broadwood1832 semi-grand1835 pianino1848 cottage1850 square piano1853 street piano1855 upright1860 pianette1862 digitorium1866 Steinway1875 baby grand1879 square1882 tin pan1882 honky-tonk piano1934 minipiano1934 spinet1936 prepared piano1940 ravalement1959 rinky-tink1961 miniature1974 Mozart piano1980 1850 C. Dickens Let. 4 Mar. (1988) VI. 53 Each girl [had] a grand, down stairs—and a cottage in her bedroom—besides a small guitar in the wash-house. 1880 Daily News 7 Oct. 4/3 D'Almaine's pianos..Trichord cottages, from hire or taken in exchange, £10 to £12. 1902 H. Quilter What's What 1005/2 The humble ‘Cottage’ piano is now much neglected by high-class manufacturers... Broadwood's cheapest Cottage is 40 guineas. Compounds C1. a. General attributive, as cottage door, cottage roof, etc. ΚΠ 1584 W. Averell Dyall for Dainty Darlings sig. Civ It fortuned the aged Mother, out of her cottage windowe, espied one daye, in the house of her Sonne, meate spitted, and layde to the fyre, ready to be roasted. 1599 L. Barker Christs Checke to Peter vi. sig. X^v When sinfull mortall man, may..receiue and entertaine vnder his Cottage roofe..what man hee will. 1647 R. Stapleton tr. Juvenal Sixteen Satyrs 67 Is there no hole, no bridge, no cottage-nooke? 1706 J. Cockburn Humane Life Displayed 22 Stand at a Cottage door, there shall be heard the noise of Vexation and Quarrelling. 1726 J. Thomson Winter 6 The Cottage-Swain Hangs o'er th' enlivening Blaze. 1788 J. Hurdis Village Curate 40 See where the sky-blue periwinkle climbs Up to the cottage eaves. 1796 J. Farington Diary 4 Apr. (1978) II. 519 I recommended to Westall to bring his two pictures of Cottage Children from bottom of the room and place them on each side the Duke of Leeds. 1798 J. Malton (title) An Essay on British Cottage Architecture..comprising Dwellings for the Peasant and Farmer, and Retreats for the Gentleman. 1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab iii. 41 Sleep they less sweetly on the cottage thatch, Than on the dome of kings? 1819 W. Wordsworth Grief, thou hast Lost in Misc. Sonn in Wks. (1888) 576/1 Now that the cottage Spinning-wheel is mute. 1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist II. xxxiii. 258 It was quite a cottage-room, with a lattice-window. 1859 W. M. Thackeray Virginians i The Cottage-gables glared in sunshine. 1876 C. M. Yonge Womankind xxxii. 293 We all of us know of people in all ranks, cottage-women especially, who are..looked up to, trusted, called in. 1904 W. B. Yeats Let. 2 Jan. (1994) III. 510 When you write again, if you do, you might tell me what the cottage scene Fay got made for Colm's play turned out like. 1935 Pop. Sci. Monthly July 64/1 (caption) Wooden curtain pole fastened in a corner of a cottage room to hold clothes hangers. 1972 New York 11 Sept. 88/1 Informal cottage living. 1989 New Scientist 21 Oct. 84/3 The car shot backwards, demolishing a cottage wall. 2002 C. Knox tr. E. van Heerden Long Silence Mario Salviati i. v. 22 She pulled the cottage door shut behind her, locked it carefully,..and went out through the front gate. b. attributive. Designating furniture of small scale or light construction; designating this style of furniture. ΚΠ 1798 Times 13 Feb. 4/3 Japanned rout and cottage chairs, secretaries and bookcases. 1799 Morning Chron. 10 Aug. For the accommodation of the company, cottage chairs, matted with rush, were provided. 1809 Morning Chron. 17 May (advt.) The most elegant and cheapest cottage-bedstead and furniture in London. 1834 Hampshire Advertiser 5 July (advt.) Sets of mahogany and ebonized trafalgar chairs, chimney glass, cottage sofa, loo, card, and quartetto tables. 1876 Newcastle Courant 7 July 8/3 He..remarked that the pitman's cottage style of seating the church was much against the fine effect of the architecture. 1883 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. II. 516/2 Cottage-chair, a form of chair adapted for comfort rather than show, and capable of being carried on to the lawn, on picnics, &c.; a folding chair. 1905 Keith's Mag. July 23/1 Against the stair wall, place a long cottage settee of grey-stained wood, cushioned with green burlaps. 1951 Good Housek. Home Encycl. (1956) 106/2 This class of furniture (sometimes called ‘cottage’ Chippendale, Hepplewhite and so on). 1976 Denbighshire Free Press 8 Dec. 16/4 (advt.) 4 piece Cottage suite. Brown vinyl, £30 o.n.o. 2001 W. Dunford Making Killing 257 When there was no answer at the door, we sat on the two wooden cottage chairs permanently planted on the front porch. 2014 P. Hogan Pleasure & Calling (2015) 269 I lie with my knees slightly bent on Mrs Wade's cottage sofa, with its polished wooden arms and ornate, quilted throw. c. attributive. Designating a style of book decoration, common in the late 17th century, in which the design of the cover of a book features a panel whose upper and lower edges are suggestive of the outline of a low-pitched gable or roof; executed in this style. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > type of binding > [adjective] full-bound1705 super-extra1774 half-bound1775 Etruscan1792 antique1794 Russia-bound1808 vellum-bound1836 vellum-covered1836 quarter-bound1842 cloth-bound1860 limp1863 cottage1874 monastic1880 parchment-bound1881 yapped1882 all along1888 Grolieresque1889 Maioli1890 perfect1890 treed calf1892 Lyonnais1893 hardback1894 dos-à-dos1952 perfect bound1960 spiral-bound1961 spiral1977 1874 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 29 May 684/1 A specimen of the English school, of the style known as ‘cottage binding’ of 120 years ago. 1880 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 16 Apr. 467/2 Small 4to, printed from copper-plates; bound in blue morocco, tooled and gilt, in the cottage style. 1982 H. M. Nixon Brit. Bookbindings presented by K. H. Oldaker 25 Oxford binding by Roger Bartlett, c. 1680. Reddish-brown turkey, gold-tooled to an elaborate cottage design. 1991 L. Avrin Scribes, Script & Bks. xiii. 319 Samuel Mearne.., Charles II's binder, introduced an architectural variant known as cottage style, a triangular pediment at the top and bottom of a rectangular panel. d. attributive. slang. In sense 5c; esp. designating a man who uses public toilets for sexual encounters with other men. Chiefly in cottage queen.Compare cottager n. 4. ΚΠ 1971 S. Houghton Current Prison Slang (MS notebk.) (O.E.D. Archive) 15 Cottage-Mary, homosexual who haunts public lavatories. 1984 ‘Pickles’ Queens 184 Sometimes it's hard, heavy sex, and other times just tossing each other off, then out to the loo and washing the hands, like suburban cottage-queens! 1990 New Statesman & Society 30 Nov. 24/4 The number of offences of ‘indecency between males’ (which almost exclusively applies to this so-called ‘cottage’ sex) recorded by police in 1989 was 2,022 for the whole year. 2002 C. Perriam in J. Labanyi Constructing Identity Contemp. Spain x. 163 The intellectual whose partner is a frivolous shopaholic and cottage queen using El Corte Inglés and the nearby toilets for both activities. C2. Locative. ΚΠ 1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. xxx. 207 Such a Girl as this, Cottage-born. 1789 W. Woty Poet. Amusem. 44 When first I ken'd The cottage-living Matron. 1827 J. Keble Christian Year I. xvii. 67 Thou here didst sojourn, Cottage-born. 1904 M. B. Adams Mod. Cottage Archit. 9 Experience has proved that Cottage dwellers..will not stop in an old-fashioned family-room dwelling when they can obtain the option of going into a modern one provided with a ‘parlour’. 2014 Daily Post (N. Wales) (Nexis) 28 June 6 David Lloyd George, the cottage-born boy who lapped up learning at the feet of his uncle Lloyd and became a champion of social progress at Westminster. C3. Objective. ΚΠ 1787 R. Burns Poems (new ed.) 204 And hail'd the morning with a cheer, A cottage-rousing craw. 1812 Morning Chron. 18 Sept. They have promised me to do what they can towards the amendment of cottage building. 1980 S. W. Martins Great Estate at Work v. 218 The cottage building of the late earl had by no means solved the housing problem. C4. cottage allotment n. now rare an allotment (allotment n. 2b) let out to the resident of a cottage. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > [noun] > cottage allotment allotment1725 cottage allotment1823 allotment garden1837 1823 Plan for Relief of Agric. Poor 10 That the rector..be requested..to give up or waive any and every claim for tythe on the cottage allotment. 1837 Penny Cycl. VIII. 88/2 The object of cottage allotments is to increase the resources of the labourer. 1932 Irish Times 23 Feb. 5/6 A large number [of tenants] were set down as having from half an acre to ten acres in addition to the cottage allotments. cottage bonnet n. now chiefly historical a woman's close-fitting straw bonnet of a type fashionable in the early 19th century. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > woman's bonnet > types of > other dulcimer?1767 cottage bonnet1794 cabriolet1797 skyscraper1800 kettle-holder1813 basket-bonnet1824 kiss-me-quick1845 tilt-bonnet1874 granny bonnet1879 toque1881 rain bonnet1909 1794 Times 1 Apr. (advt.) [She] had on when she left her home, a blue Stormont gown, and an old cottage bonnet trimmed with blue ribbon. 1826 M. R. Mitford Our Village II. 194 A sudden puff of wind took at once my cottage-bonnet. 1849 C. Brontë Shirley II. ii. 49 The little cottage bonnet and the silk scarf. 1908 Illustr. London News 29 Aug. 314/1 The revival for motoring wear of the pretty little ‘cottage bonnet’ of Early Victorian days. 1941 Country Life 24 May p. xxiv/2 The bonnets that our great-grandmothers wore when young with a pretty raised brim over the forehead—‘cottage bonnets’ I think they were called. 2013 T. Chevalier Last Runaway 35 A cottage bonnet with a deep crown much like Honor's own, but with white feathers lining the inside rim rather than the usual white ruffles. cottage country n. Canadian a rural area with many holiday homes. ΚΠ 1967 Winnipeg Free Press 18 Sept. 15/3 Black flies are not a problem south of the cottage country. 1976 Toronto Star 22 May a1/4 The automobile headlights on Highway 400 last night looked like a river of gold flowing north from Metro to Muskoka cottage country. 2001 S. Kane Virtual Freedom i. 5 If you remember the turnoff, you pass the tumble-down barns on your way to cottage country. cottage farmer n. a person engaged in farming on a small scale; cf. cottage farming n. ΚΠ ?1797 J. Baker Picturesque Guide to Local Beauties of Wales II. 77 The vallies..are well peopled by small freeholders and cottage farmers. 1832 J. Clare Lett. (1985) 561 My desire is to..get out of debt before I leave here & to keep out when I commence a cottage farmer—the place..keeps two cows. 1942 Bks. Abroad 16 257 The poor village girl and the independent cottage farmer emerging as heroes of monumental stature. 2017 Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, Calif.) (Nexis) 28 Feb. The only exception would be on rural-residential parcels of two acres or more where cottage farmers could grow up to 25 plants. cottage farming n. now somewhat rare farming conducted on a small scale. ΚΠ c1831 J. Clare Lett. (1985) 550 I am going to leave here &..commence cottage farming. 1832 Courier 23 July The happy results of this cottage farming are apparent in every parish. 1951 Econ. Hist. Rev. 3 383 A surrounding belt of land was to be reserved in perpetuity for co-operative or cottage farming allotments. 1995 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 9 Aug. As far as I know, there are only two or three of us who hand-pick the fruit, and we aim at a boutique market... I call it cottage farming. cottage-fried potatoes n. U.S. potatoes cut into round slices and fried; = cottage fries n.Cf. French fried potatoes n. at French adj. and n. Compounds 1b, home-fried potatoes n. at home n.¹ and adj. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1901 Suppl. Typogr. Jrnl. 15 Sept. 91/2 Supper: Hamburger steak; cottage fried potatoes; pickled beets; rhubarb sauce; hot rolls. 1950 Ottumwa (Iowa) Daily Courier 30 June 5/4 Thought must be given to choosing accompaniment for the spicy meat balls... Cottage fried potatoes would be appropriate. 2004 Santa Fe New Mexican (Nexis) 19 Nov. p72 Outstanding at the Bull Ring are the boneless rib-eye and the cottage-fried potatoes. cottage fries n. U.S. potatoes cut into round slices and fried or baked until brown; = cottage-fried potatoes n.Cf. French fries n. at French adj. and n. Compounds 1b, home fries n. at home n.¹ and adj. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1930 Canton (Ohio) Daily News 6 Jan. 9/2 The cottage fries..[are] prepared over a recipe that leaves a tasty brown hardness of shell that is especially delectable. 1979 Gourmet Dec. 18/2 The accompaniments..include onion rings, tomato, and..cottage fries, thick mealy-centered ovals of fried potato that are delicious. 2016 B. Lingle Fries! 52 Rounds, cottage fries, home fries..[are] sliced flat and fat, thus leaving an appreciable amount of vegetable on the inside. The hockey puck of fries. cottage garden n. (originally) a garden adjoining a cottage; (later sometimes) spec. a (usually small) garden kept in an informal style, and typically stocked with colourful flowering plants. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > [noun] > other types of garden grounda1500 knot-garden1519 back-garden1535 summer garden1589 spring garden1612 spring gardena1625 water gardena1626 walled gardena1631 wildernessa1644 window garden1649 botanic garden1662 Hanging Gardens1705 winter garden1736 cottage garden1765 Vauxhall1770 English garden1771 wall garden1780 chinampa1787 moat garden1826 gardenesque1832 sunk garden1835 roof garden1844 weedery1847 wild garden1852 rootery1855 beer-garden1863 Japanese garden1863 bog-garden1883 Italian garden1883 community garden1884 sink garden1894 trough garden1935 sand garden1936 Zen garden1937 hydroponicum1938 tub garden1974 rain garden1994 1765 J. Langhorne Corr. Theodosius & Constantia (new ed.) x. 95 (heading) Written in a Cottage-garden, at a Village in Lorrain. 1849 C. Brontë Shirley III. xiv. 314 I can line yonder barren Hollow with lines of cottages, and rows of cottage-gardens. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. at Cut and come again A very prolific variety of kale or winter greens; much grown in cottage gardens. 1958 V. Sackville-west Even More for your Garden 87 A woman who, with her husband, created out of nothing the sort of garden we should all like to have, a cottage garden on a slightly larger scale than the average cottage garden. 1995 Country Living May 77 Ask your best friend..to name her favorite garden, and chances are she'll say ‘a cottage garden’. What she's thinking of is a luscious, fragrant plot filled with old-fashioned annuals and perennials planted in somewhat chaotic fashion. 2008 U. McGovern Lost Crafts (2009) 209 However, on a less grand scale, growing your own food—in the cottage garden, strip field, allotment or elsewhere—was, until the modern era, an essential part of survival. cottage gardening n. the action or process of creating, tending, or cultivating a cottage garden. ΚΠ 1817 Scots Mag. May 375/2 The Cottager's Companion, intended to instruct the labouring poor in the art of cottage gardening. 1903 Garden 24 Oct. 278/2 The increasing demand in country districts that the schoolmaster shall be competent to teach the elements of cottage gardening. 1909 Garden Mag. Dec. 229/2 The American style of cottage gardening must grow out of the fact that our labourers do not have as much time for gardening as the English. 1992 in A. Ravetz Place of Home (1995) ix. 176/1 The first [gardening style] had evolved from the English vernacular tradition of rural cottage gardening... The cottager's plot, with its fusion of vegetables, fruit and flowers was a model of efficiency and aesthetics. 2008 Sacramento (Calif.) Bee (Nexis) 13 Sept. d1 The thatched roof..combined with the relaxed yet abundant gardening style epitomizes cottage gardening. cottage home n. (a) a home in the form of a cottage; (b) British a charitable institution providing accommodation in the form of cottages (now historical). ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > types of building generally > [noun] > building devoted to charitable object charity-house1758 institution1792 cottage home1797 institute1829 warehouse1970 1797 R. Southey Poems 7 The journey o'er and every peril past Beholds his little cottage-home at last. 1828 F. D. Hemans Homes of Eng. in Records of Woman (ed. 2) 171 The Cottage Homes of England! By thousands on her plains. 1868 Birmingham Daily Post 5 Feb. 6/4 I send herewith a copy of the memorandum and articles of association of a society recently incorporated under the name of ‘Evans's Cottage Homes’. The object of the association is the management of a charity..for providing cottage homes and annuities for ladies of reduced fortunes. 1882 S. A. Barnett in H. Barnett Canon S. A. B. (1918) I. xi. 124 Mrs. Barnett..opened a Cottage Home in which they spend three months before going into service. 1904 Pop. Sci. Monthly Jan. 252 These tenants might have bought a good farm for less than the clerk in the city would pay for his cottage home. 1916 Amer. Med. July 542/1 A cottage home for the treatment of valvular disease in boys. 2000 G. Towers Shelter is not Enough 19 Everywhere else the new housing was in the form of cottage homes on greenfield ex-urban sites. 2015 J. Cooper Protestant Orphan Society 213 In July 1908, Webb visited Sunnyside Home, the DPOS affiliated cottage home in Kilternan. cottage lecture n. now historical a sermon or other religious address preached in a private home rather than in a church, chapel, etc. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > preaching > [noun] > instance of > preached in the home of a layman cottage lecture1822 1822 J. Jones (title) Cottage lectures. 1828 T. S. Grimshawe Mem. L. Richmond (1829) vii. 68 His weekly labours commenced with what he called his Tuesday-night cottage lecture, from its being held successively in the cottages of the poor. 1858 ‘G. Eliot’ Janet's Repentance xi, in Scenes Clerical Life II. 200 Three sermons on Sunday, a night-school for young men on Tuesday, a cottage-lecture on Thursday. 1915 G. Hodges Henry Codman Potter ii. 31 The lay-reader took the superintendence of the Sunday School, organized a choir, and began cottage lectures in the outlying farmhouses, where he preached his own sermons. 2008 Eng. Hist. Rev. 123 1584 John Atkinson walked between eight and nine miles every Sunday to maintain a regular service in his church and two cottage lectures in outlying districts. cottage organ n. a small reed organ, typically with pedal-operated bellows; a harmonium. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > types of organ > [noun] > reed-organ cottage organ1836 aeoline1840 melodeon1844 melodium1846 harmonium1847 reed organ1851 organ-harmonium1864 American organ1869 harmonicon1876 harmonica1880 organ1880 vocalion1882 squeeze-box1909 melodicon1938 1836 Morning Chron. 6 June 8/2 (advt.) The handsome household furniture, nearly new; rosewood sideboard,..set of chairs, cottage organ, [etc.]. 1863 Daily Milwaukee (Wisconsin) News 5 Sept. (advt.) Cottage organ, manufactured by J. Estey, of Brattleboro, Vt. 1900 C. C. Munn Uncle Terry 12 A small cottage organ graced the platform, upon which an antique desk did duty as pulpit. 1934 Forum & Century (N.Y.) Aug. 126/1 Ira Slimpin's new wife..at the cottage organ, playing the wedding march. That was the signal to start down. 2014 South Wales Echo (Nexis) 11 July 22 As well as cathedrals John has played at Oxbridge colleges and churches, practising at home in Thornhill on his second-hand 110-year-old cottage organ. cottage piano n. a small upright piano. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > stringed keyboards > [noun] > pianoforte > types of piano grand pianoforte1784 square pianoforte1787 grand piano1795 cottage pianoforte1816 cottage piano1824 table piano1827 table pianoforte1827 tin kettle1827 grand1830 piccolo1831 Broadwood1832 semi-grand1835 pianino1848 cottage1850 square piano1853 street piano1855 upright1860 pianette1862 digitorium1866 Steinway1875 baby grand1879 square1882 tin pan1882 honky-tonk piano1934 minipiano1934 spinet1936 prepared piano1940 ravalement1959 rinky-tink1961 miniature1974 Mozart piano1980 1824 New-Eng. Galaxy 18 June A keyed instrument, similar to the cottage piano in appearance. 1926 E. F. Benson in Windsor Mag. Aug. 260/1 I'm going to make a change in this room, Bobby... I'm going to hoof out the boudoir-grand and have a cottage piano. Makes more room. 2003 Weekend Austral. (Nexis) 18 Oct. b2 It was 1904 when my nanna Rosina..visited Allan's music store and selected her much-coveted purchase, a cottage piano. cottage pianoforte n. now rare = cottage piano n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > stringed keyboards > [noun] > pianoforte > types of piano grand pianoforte1784 square pianoforte1787 grand piano1795 cottage pianoforte1816 cottage piano1824 table piano1827 table pianoforte1827 tin kettle1827 grand1830 piccolo1831 Broadwood1832 semi-grand1835 pianino1848 cottage1850 square piano1853 street piano1855 upright1860 pianette1862 digitorium1866 Steinway1875 baby grand1879 square1882 tin pan1882 honky-tonk piano1934 minipiano1934 spinet1936 prepared piano1940 ravalement1959 rinky-tink1961 miniature1974 Mozart piano1980 1816 Morning Post 9 Sept. The cottage Piano-forte has two pedals, silk front as good as new, cost 45 guineas, for 32 guineas. 1883 Crystal Stories No. 24. 137/1 My little companion cried ‘oh, pianny!’ and ran to a cottage pianoforte, which stood invitingly open. 1953 Manch. Guardian 28 Mar. 8/2 (advt.) Sale by auction of furniture and effects, including cottage pianoforte by Spencer, mahogany cabinet gramophone, [etc.]. cottage pie n. a dish of minced beef or (occasionally) other meat which has been topped with mashed potato and then baked or browned.Cf. shepherd's pie n. at shepherd n. Compounds 2b, which is similar but often made with lamb or mutton. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > meat dishes > [noun] > other meat dishes langue de boeuf1381 sawgeatc1390 pome-garneza1450 olive1598 potato pie1600 capilotade1611 carbonade1651 beef à la mode1653 Scots collops1657 Scotch collops1664 galantine1702 grenadine1706 scotched collops1708 à la mode beef1723 miroton1725 German duck1785 cottage pie1791 chartreuse1806 timbale1824 sanders1827 rognon1828 rolliche1830 schalet1846 old thing1848 Brunswick stew1855 scrapple1855 moussaka1862 cannelon1875 crépinette1877 shepherd's pie1877 chop suey1888 estouffade1889 noisette1891 chaudfroid1892 patty1904 boeuf bourguignon1915 sukiyaki1920 bœuf stroganoff1932 bœuf1936 flauta1938 rumaki1941 rendang1948 pastitsio1950 keema1955 bulgogi1958 moo shu1962 Melba1964 shabu-shabu1970 carpaccio1974 al pastor1977 gosht1982 parmo1999 parmesan2003 beef stroganof- 1791 J. Woodforde Diary 29 Aug. (1927) III. 295 Dinner to day, Cottage-Pye and rost Beef. 1874 M. Hooper Little Dinners 60 The trimmings of the cutlets will make an excellent cottage-pie for the family dinner. 1985 National Law Jrnl. (U.S.) 13 May 23/2 Children will have a chance to eat a real English cottage pie at Woburn Abbey. 2015 A. Sugden Perfect Catch vii. 145 Sounds like I'd better make you an appetizer while the cottage pie is heating. cottage pudding n. North American a dessert consisting of cake covered in a sweet sauce. ΚΠ 1857 Flag of Our Union 21 Mar. 95 Cottage Pudding. Rub a teaspoonful of cream-tartar in one pint of flour [etc.]..; the sauce is..one cup butter, one of sugar; spice and flavor to suit fancy. 1906 Good Housek. Nov. 548/4 Dinner..Clear soup..Hamburg steak loaf with tomato sauce..Cottage pudding with chocolate sauce. 1982 Globe & Mail (Canada) (Nexis) 29 Sept. Use [grape juice concentrate] in punches, or for sauce for cottage pudding. 2006 S. Taggart Commune x. 109 We're having... your mother's recipe for steamed cottage pudding with caramel sauce for dessert. cottage right n. now historical a limited form of right of access to common land which pertained to ownership or occupation of a cottage; a plot of land conferring such a right. ΚΠ 1714 in G. F. Dow Rec. Salem Commoners (1903) 16 William Gedney..for his Grandfathers Clarks farme house & Cottage Right there... John Mackmalion [prob. read Mackmahon] for his fathers house he Claimes a Cottage Right in his Land for M^rs Felton. 1729 in C. A. Avery Averell-Averill-Avery Family (1906) I. 141 A Cottage Right (so called) containing two acres, and being ye 21st lot in sd Cottage Rights in Topsfield [in Massachusetts]. 1749 London Evening Post 14 Mar. (advt.) A Manor..consisting of the Manor-House, a Dovecoat, a large Barn,..three Cottage-Rights, and about ninety computed Acres of enclosed Pasture Land. 1831 Times 8 July Upwards of 300 acres of arable and sward land, part freehold and part copyhold, with cottage rights. 1883 Hist. Coll. Essex Inst. XX. 163 Some of these poor people [in Salem, Massachusetts] were granted house-lots, to be held during the town's pleasure. These so-called ‘cottage-rights’ were akin to the shanty-rights that are sometimes temporarily allowed to Irish squatters along the lines of our American railways. 1929 Evening Huronite (S. Dakota) 24 May 2/2 It was..determined that the draws and bayous about the lake would be retained as common property and that cottage rights would be given only to the hills about the lake. 2001 Past & Present 171 119 If most of the cottage rights belonged to large estates then by implication labourers owned few of them. cottage roll n. North American (now chiefly Canadian) a type of ham made from a piece of boneless pork shoulder, typically cured in brine with the addition of sugar and spices. ΚΠ 1903 G. G. Hutchinson Licenses Dairy & Food Commissioner 1902 (Pennsylvania Dept. Agric. Bull. No. 110) 119 Hamburg steak, cottage roll, veal loaf [etc.]. 1938 Belmont (Manitoba) News 27 Oct. Simmer cottage roll in gently boiling water until tender. Cool in the liquid in which it was cooked. 2012 Edmonton (Alberta) Jrnl. (Nexis) 4 Apr. e3 Hams are a great—and tasty—convenience... Cottage roll hams and pickled hams, of course, do require a thorough cooking. cottage window n. Architecture (chiefly U.S.) a type of double-hung sash window in which the top sash is shorter than the bottom one, and which often contains decorative features such as lead-light work, stained glass, etc.Popular esp. in the first quarter of the 20th cent.For the earlier, general use of cottage window see Compounds 1a. ΚΠ 1908 San Antonio (Texas) Gaz. 11 Jan. 8/4 (advt.) A new six-room bungalow. Has porcelain bath and reception hall, large cottage windows, back and front porches. 1988 H. Gottfried & J. Jennings Amer. Vernacular Buildings & Interiors, 1870–1960 76 (caption) Cottage windows—the quintessential window for cottages..; variety of patterns in the top light, including diamond glass, leaded art glass, and leaded bevel plate. 2017 States News Service (Nexis) 16 Oct. Distinguishing exterior features of the house include a wraparound porch with pedimented entries [and]..cottage windows with leaded glass in a diamond and oval design. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022). cottagev. Brit. /ˈkɒtɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈkɑdɪdʒ/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: cottage n. Etymology: < cottage n. With sense 2 compare cottaging n. 3. 1. intransitive. To stay in a cottage, esp. one that is owned or rented as a holiday home (cf. cottage n. 5a). Now chiefly North American.In quot. 1848 transitive with it: to live in a cottage. ΚΠ 1848 M. W. Savage Bachelor of Albany v. 44 What qualification have you for a country gentleman?.. Don't go cottaging and pottaging it at this time of your life. 1875 G. A. Baker Point-lace & Diamonds 61 They're cottaging at Newport; they're bathing at Cape May. 1912 C. Young Racer Boys xxiii. 126 You're cottaging over Harbor View way; aren't you? I think I've seen you there. 2014 R. Love Elgin House, Lake Joseph xx. 87 She was..a friend of Canada's first woman doctor, Dr. Emily Stowe, who with her husband and family cottaged on Lake Joseph. 2. intransitive. British slang. Of a man: to engage in or solicit sex with another man in a public toilet; to use or frequent public toilets for this purpose. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > other types of sexual activity or intercourse > engage in other types of sexual activity or intercourse [verb (intransitive)] > engage in or solicit sex in a public place cottage1960 1960 G. Westwood Minority v. 74 The homosexual who is proceeding from one lavatory to another in the hope of finding someone is said to be ‘cottaging’. 1978 K. Plummer in M. Corbin Couple viii. 190 They met in the gent's lavatory at Marylebone station, where both were ‘cottaging’ in adjacent cubicles. 1990 Gay Times Dec. (Centre section) 2/2 Is there a man in this town who is not on the rebound, does not cottage and is not sleeping with someone else. 2015 Scottish Daily Mail (Nexis) 25 May [He] alleged that the politician had regularly ‘cottaged’ along motorways, but no source was ever produced. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1405v.1848
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