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cottage

/ˈkɒt.ɪd͡ʒ/ verb C2
  1. To stay at a seasonal home, to go cottaging.
  2. To have homosexual sex in a public lavatory; to practice cottaging. (intransitive)

He/she/it cottages · Past cottaged · Past participle cottaged · -ing form cottaging

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Verb forms

Base form
cottage
He/she/it
cottages
Past
cottaged
Past participle
cottaged
-ing form
cottaging

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“We are on our way to the Emerald City to see the Great Oz,” she answered, “and we stopped at your cottage to pass the night.”
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 27 · B2
Now and then we passed a moorland cottage, walled and roofed with stone, with no creeper to break its harsh outline.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 68 · C1
I, as a philosopher, should like a little country-house, a cottage down there under the trees, without so many free-stones over my poor body.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 755 · C1
“I see a little cottage at the right of us,” he said, “built of logs and branches.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 24 · B2

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