Meaning of cates | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Provisions; food; viands; especially, luxurious food; delicacies; dainties.
   archaic, plural, plural-only
2. A surname.

Equivalents

Examples

“I had rather live / With cheese and garlic in a windmill, far, / Than feed on cates and have him talk to me / In any summer house in Christendom.”

“Hath any rival glutton got the start, / And beat him in his own luxurious art; / Bought cates for which Apicius could not pay, / Or drest old dainties in a newer way?”

“I tempted his blood and his flesh, / Hid in roses my mesh, / Choicest cates and the flagon's best spilth— / Still he kept to his filth!”

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