Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Cottage

Cottage (k?t"t?j; 48) , noun

[From Cot a cottage.]

A small house; a cot; a hut.

The term was formerly limited to a habitation for the poor, but is now applied to any small tasteful dwelling; and at places of summer resort, to any residence or lodging house of rustic architecture, irrespective of size.

Collocations (2)
Cottage allotment , See under Alloment. [English]
Cottage cheese , the thick part of clabbered milk strained, salted, and pressed into a ball.