cate

Definitions

1. A delicacy or item of food.
   in-plural
2. A diminutive of the female given name Catherine.

Equivalents

Examples

“Kate of Kate-hall, my super-daintie Kate, / For dainties are all Kates, and therefore Kate / Take⟳ this of me, Kate of my consolation […]”

“Have⟳ we not heard of divers most fertile regions, plenteously yeelding al maner of necessary victuals, where neverthelesse the most ordinary cates [translating méz] and daintiest dishes, were but bread, water-cresses, and water?”

“All cates and dainties shall be stored there / Quickly on this feast-night: [...]”

“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.”

“Prosopochrysa lemannae is a tiny soldier fly⟳ from Judbarra National Park⟳ in the Northern Territory. It was named in honour of his colleague Cate Lemann, by Bry the Fly⟳ Guy (aka Dr Bryan Lessard), an entomologist at our insect collection.”

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