cote
noun
a shelter, coop, or small shed for sheep, pigs, pigeons, etc.
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cote
1 American
[koht]
/ koʊt /
noun
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a shelter, coop, or small shed for sheep, pigs, pigeons, etc.
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British Dialect. a cottage; small house.
cote
2
American
[koht]
/ koʊt /
verb (used with object)
Obsolete.
coted,
coting
côte
3
American
[koht]
/ koʊt /
noun
French.
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côtes
plural
cote
1
British
/ kəʊt /
noun
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a small shelter for pigeons, sheep, etc
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( in combination )
dovecote
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dialect a small cottage
cote
2
British
/ kəʊt /
verb
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of cote1
before 1050; Middle English, Old English cote (feminine; cf. cot 2)
Origin of cote2
First recorded in 1565–75; origin uncertain
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On the exterior, about the only indication of any religious function was a small bell cote at the parapet.
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2016
Froome, who crashed on stage six, struggled on the final day and was dropped by Contador on the category 1 climb up to cote de Montagny.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2014
With beauty in his heart he also built a dove cote by the woodshed.
From Time Magazine Archive
And one day he announces grandly: "In Old Castile I own a pigeon cote which if it were not in ruins would hold 200 pigeons if I had pigeons."
From Time Magazine Archive
They would fly around the countryside for a day or two, then return to the cote.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
A group of three riders finally went clear in the the short côte de Brié climb.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 15, 2022
This brasserie-style restaurant in a repurposed limestone bank building is serving a menu that leans toward luxury with lobster ravioli, dry-aged crown of duck for two, and côte de boeuf, also for two.
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2020
It offers dishes in McMillan and Morin’s maximalist style: a grilled cheese as big as a skateboard; a hundred-and-twenty-dollar côte de boeuf.
From The New Yorker ● May 20, 2019
It was one of the more modest choices on an à la carte menu which includes a $125 “shellfish tower”, a $195 carving côte de boeuf for two, and a $68 ribeye steak.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 18, 2016
In the little hamlet of Persan an old Frenchman sitting on a rustic seat before the village inn, removed his pipe from his mouth long enough to call, "La côte?"
From Tom Slade Motorcycle Dispatch Bearer by R. Emmett (Robert Emmett) Owen
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
For we have seen a French geography-book in which Côtentin was explained to mean the land of coasts; the peninsular shape of the district gave it "trois côtes," and so it was called Côtentin.
From Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine by William Holden Hutton
Eh, believe me, Messieurs, give no more côtes mal taillées to men of letters; too proud to receive favors, they are often too much in distress to endure losses.
From Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence by Elizabeth S. Kite
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
According to the Dayton Daily News, the proposed development, which was coted down Monday following Chappelle’s public comments, involved more than 100 single-family homes with prices indeed ranging from $250,000-$600,000.
From Fox News ● Feb. 10, 2022
We coted them on the way, and hither are they coming to offer you service.
From The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
To think, my lord, if you delight not in man, what lenten entertainment the players shall receive from you: we coted them on the way; and hither are they coming to offer you service.
From Hamlet by William Shakespeare
I did, cos I didn't want de police to coted me.
From The Rover Boys in the Jungle Or, Stirring Adventures in Africa by Edward Stratemeyer
To think, my lord, if you delight not in man, what lenten entertainment38 the players shall receive from you: we coted them on the way;39 and hither are they coming, to offer you service.
From Hamlet by Charles John Kean
My Afrikan Brother," sed I, coting from a Track I onct red, "you belong to a very interestin race.
From The Complete Works of Artemus Ward — Part 2: War by Artemus Ward
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