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Webster 1913 Edition


Cottage

Cot′tage

(k?t′t?j; 48)
,
Noun.
[From
Cot
a cottage.]
A small house; a cot; a hut.
☞ 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.

Webster 1828 Edition


Cottage

COTTAGE

,
Noun.
[from cot.] A cot; a hut; a small mean habitation.
The sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds. Zephaniah 2.