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

His little piglike eyes darted to and fro among the cates before him assuring themselves that he was missing nothing.

From Men of Affairs by Pertwee, Roland

And they felt it to be a friendly and cheerful thing, to have this special woman to season the rich cates and fruit provided.

From A Reconstructed Marriage by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

A pico of one hundred cates is equivalent to five arrobas, twelve and one-half libras, in the new arrangement.

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