cote

[ US /ˈkoʊt/ ]
[ UK /kˈə‍ʊt/ ]
NOUN
  1. a small shelter for domestic animals (as sheep or pigeons)
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How To Use cote In A Sentence

  • Environmental health officers hope the cotes will keep pigeons off the streets and discourage them from feeding on waste food and titbits offered by tourists.
  • My neighbour lived on the terrace of his building, in a single room surrounded by cotes for his pigeons.
  • He wanted to restore the elegant dovecote, which has 880 nesting boxes in 16 tiers, and turn it into a versatile glass-and-steel living space with a glazed extension, without losing the integrity of the original building.
  • This horse was so fleet, and its rider so expert, that they are said to have outstripped and coted, or turned, a hare upon the Bran-Law, near the head of Moffat Water, where the descent is so precipitous, that no merely earthly horse could keep its feet, or merely mortal rider could keep the saddle. Old Mortality, Complete
  • By 924 the Franks were forced to grant the Danes the districts of Bayeux, Exmes and Sees, and in 933 the Cotenin and Avranchin.
  • I think he believes these two states are naturally coterminous. Times, Sunday Times
  • Not far away, silhouetting the pleasant pastures, is an ornate dovecote with other attractive buildings.
  • But th 'gal, in santerin' roun 'tother folkses houses, met an' coted 'im thar. " Eagle Clippings " by Jack Thorne, Newspaper Correspondent and Story Teller, A Collection of His Writings to Various Newspapers
  • The songs he recorded were written by a small coterie of dedicated writers.
  • We see, now that Christianity has interpreted it for us, the significance of the cross – that monogram of Christ and cote-armure of pity, built up somewhere in the branches of almost every tree, stamped in the centre of almost every flower. The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing
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