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means A small, cozy house, typically in the countryside or a village.
from From the Old French 'cote' (a hut or small dwelling) blended with the Anglo-French suffix '-age' to give 'cotage' — the dwelling of a cottar, a peasant who held a small house and a scrap of land in exchange for labor. The root 'cot' itself is old Germanic stock, a cousin of words for shelter and covering. Over centuries the humble cottar's hovel climbed the social ladder, shedding its peasant grime to become the charming weekend retreat we romanticize today.
- word origin
- from cot, a peasant's humble medieval dwelling
- cottage industry
- factories began at home before factories existed
- cottage cheese
- named for being made in actual cottages
- royal cosplay
- Marie Antoinette built a fake peasant village to play poor
hobbiton movie set — permanent film set in matamata, new zealand built for lord of the rings, featuring 44 hobbit holes
anne hathaway's cottage — childhood home of shakespeare's wife in shottery, england, dating to 1463
pooh corner cottage — e.h. shepard's inspiration at cotchford farm in east sussex where a.a. milne wrote winnie-the-pooh