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plural cottages
A small house. examples
A seasonal home of any size or stature, a recreational home or a home in a remote location. quotations examples
Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’ and if you don't look out there's likely to be some nice, lively dog taking an interest in your underpinning.”
1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients
(UK, slang, archaic) A public lavatory.
(Polari) A meeting place for homosexual men. examples
third-person singular simple present cottages, present participle cottaging, simple past and past participle cottaged
To stay at a seasonal home, to go cottaging. examples
(intransitive, Polari, of men) To have homosexual sex in a public lavatory; to practice cottaging. examples