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Cates

name, noun

Definitions

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

    "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."

Etymology

Compare acates, and see cater.

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