cate
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- //keɪt//
A delicacy or item of food.
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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.
Etimologia
Aphetized from acate, from Old Northern French acat (“purchase”).
Forme
- plurale
- cates