cote
noun
a shelter, coop, or small shed for sheep, pigs, pigeons, etc.
côtes
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pluralof côte.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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We round out this week’s list with a great value côtes du rhône and a heritage red from southern Italy.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 31, 2022
The movement, an automatic Dubois-Dépraz 9000, is decorated with circular graining on the bridges and a snailed côtes de Genève motif on the rotor.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2013
All down the côtes, these casual shrines exhort the simple peasant to his twofold duty—to God and to his neighbour.
From Old Quebec The Fortress of New France by Claude Glennon Bryan
Above the latter village the whole of the savage and rocky range receded, leaving the lake-shore to vine-clad côtes that stretch away far to the west.
From The Headsman The Abbaye des Vignerons by James Fenimore Cooper
The town is exquisitely situated at the foot of abrupt côtes, just where the broad and tranquil river shudders with mysterious deep heavings and meets its dolphin-hued death in the all-devouring sea.
From Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 by Various
