cate

nounattested in dialogue

//keɪt//

A delicacy or item of food.

noun

1
A delicacy or item of food.
Kate of Kate-hall, my super-daintie Kate, / For dainties are all Kates, and therefore Kate / Take this of me, Kate of my consolation […]
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?
All cates and dainties shall be stored there / Quickly on this feast-night: [...]
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.

Etymology

Aphetized from acate, from Old Northern French acat (“purchase”).

Forms

plural: cates

catcher · Someone or something that catches.catching · Infectious, contagious.catchy · Instantly appealing and memorable.

cate · A delicacy or item of food.

Cate · A diminutive of the female given name Catherine.category · A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned…caterer · A person employed to obtain and maintain the storage of…

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