COTTAGED

Verb

cottaged

simple past tense and past participle of cottage

Adjective

cottaged (comparative more cottaged, superlative most cottaged)

Filled with or having cottages.

even humble Harting's cottaged vale

Source: Wiktionary


Cot"taged (-tjd), a.

Definition: Set or covered with cottages. Even humble Harting's cottaged vale. Collins.

COTTAGE

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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