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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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