Examples of cottage in a Sentence
Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 28 Feb. 2024
When the wealthy patriarch of the Dashwood household dies, the Dashwood women must leave their extravagant and glorious abode and take up residence in a very modest cottage in Devonshire.
—Lynnette Nicholas, Essence, 28 Feb. 2024
Further along the roadmap there is a plan to build six golf cottages, creating a stay-and-play opportunity.
—Mike Dojc, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
For a shade that casts a peachy glow by day and offers a warm-fuzzy neutral at night, try this shade, tastemaker Melissa Smrekar's select for the living room of her 1930s Dallas cottage.
—Grace Haynes, Southern Living, 20 Mar. 2024
First, the pastoral paradise of Musgraves’s cottage in Tennessee; and then, perhaps more surprisingly, the heady atmosphere of Downtown New York.
—Liam Hess, Vogue, 16 Mar. 2024
DreamWorks Land attraction details Shrek’s Swamp Meet: Guests can visit Shrek’s Swamp Meet to interact with beloved characters Shrek, Princess Fiona, and Donkey, the noble steed eager to joke around and converse with guests, just outside of Shrek’s cottage.
—EW.com, 29 Feb. 2024
Photo : Frank Urso/Dynamic Media Solutions The greenhouses, stables, and guest cottages are situated far from the main residence.
—Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 20 Mar. 2024
The establishment of the University of Colorado at Denver campus in the early 1970s and its subsequent growth displaced 350 families and reduced the predominantly Hispanic neighborhood to just 13 cottages and a grocery store.
—Brandi Kellam, ProPublica, 14 Mar. 2024
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Word History
Middle English cotage "holding of a free peasant, the peasant's dwelling on such a holding," borrowed from Anglo-French, "tenure of a free peasant owing rent to a lord, rent paid for such a holding," probably from Middle English cot or cote "dwelling of a rural laborer, hut" + Anglo-French -age -age — more at cot entry 1, cote entry 1
Note: Regarding the status of such a holding, see note at cottar.
15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Cottage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cottage. Accessed 16 Apr. 2024.
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