cottage country

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noun

Canadian any lakeside region where many country cottages are located

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Words nearby cottage country

Cotswold, Cotswolds, cotta, cottage, cottage cheese, cottage country, cottage flat, cottage fries, Cottage Grove, cottage hospital, cottage industry

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How to use cottage country in a sentence

In that country at that moment, the Catholics have practically disappeared.
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Elsewhere, courts throughout the country have placed limits on speech this year.
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“This is a federal mandate that is causing some real problems for schools across the country,” Kline told a CBS affiliate in July.
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Charles “Father” Coughlin, a raving anti-Semite, was one of the most popular radio hosts in the country.
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It marked a groundbreaking moment in how the country viewed Jews, especially Jewish women.
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The country is well inhabited, for it contains fifty-one cities, near a hundred walled towns, and a great number of villages.
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In the drawing-room things went on much as they always do in country drawing-rooms in the hot weather.
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Nothing remarkable occurred in our march through this country.
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There are some folk in this country, you know, who manifest a very retiring disposition at times.
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There'll be heaps uh fun in the Cypress Hills country when they get t' runnin' the whisky-jacks out.
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