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These were housed in small cotes situated around his house in Hyde Park, a few blocks from the university.

From Slate • Mar. 10, 2014

Then more and more of us acted like crazy fools and we throwed away hevey cotes and things to make our lodes a littel liter.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt

Many came so farre poorely apparrelled, and there they clothed themselues: of the mantles, they made them cotes and cassocks, and some made gownes, and lined them with Cats skins; and likewise their cassocks.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. by Hakluyt, Richard

Go, for they call you, shepherd, from the hill; Go, shepherd, and untie the wattled cotes!

From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Arnold, Matthew

In a grassy enclosure where their little cotes stood, he let them have liberty every day, watching over them carefully, that no harm should come from savage beasts or birds of prey.

From The Fairy School of Castle Frank by Balfour, Grant