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Vinony

cote

noun

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /kəʊt/ / /koʊt/

name

Etymology: From French Côté, from Latin costa.

  1. A surname from French.

noun

Etymology: From Middle English cote, from the Old English cote, the feminine form of cot (“small house”); doublet of cot (in the sense of “cottage”) and more distantly related to cottage. Cognate to Dutch kot.

  1. A cottage or hut.
  2. A small structure built to contain domesticated animals such as sheep, pigs or pigeons.

    “Watching where shepherds pen their flocks, at eve, / In hurdled cotes.”

verb

Etymology: Probably related to French côté (“side”) via Middle French costé.

  1. To go side by side with; hence, to pass by; to outrun and get before.

    “A dog cotes a hare.”

    “We coted them on the way, and hither are they coming.”