cates

British  

/ keɪts /

plural noun

1. archaic (sometimes singular) choice dainty food; delicacies

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Etymology

Origin of cates

C15: variant of acates purchases, from Old Northern French acater to buy, from Vulgar Latin accaptāre (unattested); ultimately related to Latin acceptāre to _accept

Example Sentences

Botswana's strongest asset is its first president, Sir Seretse Khama, 45, a burly, blueblooded Oxonian who has become one of Africa's staunchest advo cates of racial harmony.

From Time Magazine Archive

This indi- cates that the Negro population is spread east-and-west about as the white population, but as a whole is decidedly farther south.

From Time Magazine Archive

There they sat, resting after heat and fatigue, each in their best gala dress, the table spread with "Dicker-milch," potato-salad, cakes of various shapes and kinds—all the dainty cates dear to the German palate.

From The Grey Woman and other Tales by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn

Upon so light a foundation they build upper works, as high as they wish, of bamboo upon the cates.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 1690-1691 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Blair, Emma Helen

The cates are buoys which run on both sides from bow to stern, and they act as outriggers for the ship, which is sustained by these two floats.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 1690-1691 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Blair, Emma Helen