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cote PRONUNCIATION: (koht)

MEANING: noun: A shelter for animals.

verb tr.: To pass by.

ETYMOLOGY: For noun: From Old English cote (cottage). Earliest documented use: before 1034.

For verb: Of uncertain origin. Earliest documented use: 1555.

USAGE: "The doves in the cote above flutter, as always, and settle down again."

Brian Jackson; Streaming; Routledge; 2012.



"We coted them on the way and hither are they coming to offer you service."

William Shakespeare; Hamlet; 1603.

See more usage examples of cote in Vocabulary.com's dictionary.



A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Congratulation: The civility of envy. -Ambrose Bierce, author and editor (1842-1914)





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