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COTTAGE
bungalow, cottage
(noun) a small house with a single story
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
cottage (plural cottages)
A small house.
Synonyms: cot, hut
A seasonal home of any size or stature, a recreational home or a home in a remote location.
(UK, slang, archaic) A public lavatory.
Synonym: Thesaurus:bathroom
(Polari) A meeting place for homosexual men.
Synonyms: gingerbread office, tea room, tearoom, teahouse, tea house (US)
Verb
cottage (third-person singular simple present cottages, present participle cottaging, simple past and past participle cottaged)
To stay at a seasonal home, to go cottaging.
(intransitive, Polari, of men) To have homosexual sex in a public lavatory; to practice cottaging.
Source: Wiktionary
Cot"tage (kt"tj; 48), n. Etym: [From Cot a cotttage.]
Definition: A small house; a cot; a hut.
Note: The term was formerly limited to a habitation for the poor, but is now applied to any small tasteful dwelling; and at places of summer resort, to any residence or lodging house of rustic architecture, irrespective of size. Cottage allotment. See under Alloment. [Eng.] -- Cottage cheese, the thick part of clabbered milk strained, salted, and pressed into a ball.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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