COTTAGE

Cottage

A cottage is, typically, a small house. The word comes from England where it originally was a house that has a ground floor, with a first, lower storey of bedrooms which fit within the roofspace. In many places the word cottage is used to mean a small old-fashioned house. In modern usage, a cottage is usually a modest, often cosy dwelling, typically in a rural or semi-rural location. In the United Kingdom the term cottage denotes small rural dwellings of traditional build, although it can also be applied to dwellings of modern construction which are designed to resemble traditional ones .

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cottage

Noun

  1. A small house; a cot; a hut.
  2. A seasonal home of any size or stature. A recreational home or a home in a remote location.
  3. A public toilet.

Verb

  1. To stay at a seasonal home, to go cottaging.
  2. Of men: To have homosexual sex in a public lavatory; to practice cottaging.


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