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1584 W. Averell Dyall for Dainty Darlings sig. Civ It fortuned the aged Mother, out of her cottage windowe, espied one daye, in the house of her Sonne, meate spitted, and layde to the fyre, ready to be roasted.

1599 L. Barker Christs Checke to Peter vi. sig. X^v When sinfull mortall man, may..receiue and entertaine vnder his Cottage roofe..what man hee will.

1647 R. Stapleton tr. Juvenal Sixteen Satyrs 67 Is there no hole, no bridge, no cottage-nooke?

1706 J. Cockburn Humane Life Displayed 22 Stand at a Cottage door, there shall be heard the noise of Vexation and Quarrelling.

1726 J. Thomson Winter 6 The Cottage-Swain Hangs o'er th' enlivening Blaze.

1788 J. Hurdis Village Curate 40 See where the sky-blue periwinkle climbs Up to the cottage eaves.

1796 J. Farington Diary 4 Apr. (1978) II. 519 I recommended to Westall to bring his two pictures of Cottage Children from bottom of the room and place them on each side the Duke of Leeds.

1798 J. Malton (title) An Essay on British Cottage Architecture..comprising Dwellings for the Peasant and Farmer, and Retreats for the Gentleman.

1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab iii. 41 Sleep they less sweetly on the cottage thatch, Than on the dome of kings?

1819 W. Wordsworth Grief, thou hast Lost in Misc. Sonn in Wks. (1888) 576/1 Now that the cottage Spinning-wheel is mute.

1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist II. xxxiii. 258 It was quite a cottage-room, with a lattice-window.

1859 W. M. Thackeray Virginians i The Cottage-gables glared in sunshine.

1876 C. M. Yonge Womankind xxxii. 293 We all of us know of people in all ranks, cottage-women especially, who are..looked up to, trusted, called in.

1904 W. B. Yeats Let. 2 Jan. (1994) III. 510 When you write again, if you do, you might tell me what the cottage scene Fay got made for Colm's play turned out like.

1935 Pop. Sci. Monthly July 64/1 (caption) Wooden curtain pole fastened in a corner of a cottage room to hold clothes hangers.

1972 New York 11 Sept. 88/1 Informal cottage living.

1989 New Scientist 21 Oct. 84/3 The car shot backwards, demolishing a cottage wall.

2002 C. Knox tr. E. van Heerden Long Silence Mario Salviati i. v. 22 She pulled the cottage door shut behind her, locked it carefully,..and went out through the front gate.