Cate
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /keɪt/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Cate is a noun meaning (in the plural) A delicacy or item of food.
Meaning
(in the plural) A delicacy or item of food.
Example Sentences
All cates and dainties shall be stored there / Quickly on this feast-night: [...]
Kate of Kate-hall, my super-daintie Kate, / For dainties are all Kates, and therefore Kate / Take this of me, Kate of my consolation […]
He did not at first produce the cates and vintages they expected; they looked, most of them, puzzled at the lack of materials of revelry.
Have we not heard of divers most fertile regions, plenteously yeelding al maner of necessary victuals, where neverthelesse the most ordinary cates [translating méz] and daintiest dishes, were but bread, water-cresses, and water?
Word Forms
- cates
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include deli, kit, keat, kite, kate, kitt.
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