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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

From the library

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
They left the cottage and walked through the trees until they found a little spring of clear water, where Dorothy drank and bathed and ate her breakfast.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 25 · B2
You will find an oil-can on a shelf in my cottage.”
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 26 · B2
Dorothy at once ran back to the cottage and found the oil-can, and then she returned and asked anxiously, “Where are your joints?”
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 26 · B2

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