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cate - What does it mean?

Definition of 'cate'

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (in the plural) A delicacy or item of food.
  • * 1590s , (William Shakespeare), The Taming of the Shrew , First Folio 1623, Act I:
  • Kate of Kate-hall, my super-daintie Kate, / For dainties are all Kates , and therefore Kate / Take this of me, Kate of my consolation [...].
  • * 1603 , (John Florio), translating Michel de Montaigne, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1 p. 101:
  • Have we not heard of divers most fertile regions, plenteously yeelding al maner of necessary victuals, where neverthelesse the most ordinary cates and daintiest dishes, were but bread, water-cresses, and water?
  • * 1820 , (John Keats), The Eve of St. Agnes , l. 172-3:
  • All cates and dainties shall be storèd there / Quickly on this feast-night
  • * 1985 , (Anthony Burgess), Kingdom of the Wicked :
  • 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.
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