a shelter, coop, or small shed for sheep, pigs, pigeons, etc.
British Dialect. a cottage; small house.
a small shelter for pigeons, sheep, etc
( in combination )
dovecote
dialect a small cottage
before 1050; Middle English, Old English cote (feminine; cf. cot 2)
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
The Irishman also had a cote of 100 pigeons in his dormitory.
From Time Magazine Archive
The young girls, exquisitely suggestible, divide as the pair has divided, some du cote de Mlle.
From Time Magazine Archive
She saw them return home to the cote on smooth, slow glides.
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
“Frankly, for a special meal at home, I prefer a côte de boeuf.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2019
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
Others seem only to run down from the côte to the sea as steeply as black planks set against a high building.
From Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 by Various
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 Hutton, William Holden
The ravines separating these côtes are deep and long: those of Vaux, Haudromont, and Fleury cut into the very heart of the plateau, leaving between them merely narrow ridges of land, easily to be defended.
From World's War Events, Vol. II by Reynolds, Francis J. (Francis Joseph)
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
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
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 Shakespeare, William
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 Kean, Charles John
We coted them on the way, and thither are they coming to offer you—SERVICE.
From The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Bacon, Delia
We coted them on the way, and hither are they coming to offer you service.
From The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by Shakespeare, William
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 Ward, Artemus
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