cottage

as in cabin
an often small house for recreational or seasonal use for a month every summer we rent a cottage on the ocean

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Recent Examples of cottage It’s lined with colonial-era buildings and colorful cottages. Laura Begley Bloom, AFAR Media, 10 Mar. 2025 Here, one of the six cottages at Nagataki is home for the night—the ryokan with its shoji paper walls and woven tatami flooring counts emperor Akihito among its long list of esteemed guests. Brandon Presser, Vogue, 6 Mar. 2025 That cottage as well as all the others come with discounts to the Cog Railway and some local theaters, as well as access to the pool and gym at the Mountain View Grand. Moira McCarthy, Boston Herald, 9 Mar. 2025 Their family, unlike the families of most of Lilian’s schoolmates, lived not in an apartment building with central heating and running water but in a one-room cottage, which was no more than a shack. Yiyun Li, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for cottage

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“Cottage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cottage. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.

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