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Definition of Cottage dweller
1. Noun. Someone who lives in a cottage.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cottage Dweller
Literary usage of Cottage dweller
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Country Cottages and Week-end Homes by John Hudson Elder-Duncan (1906)
"It is by the discretion and restraint exhibited in the choice of these appurtenances
that the cottage dweller may proclaim his intelligence and refinement ..."
2. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"She saw it also from her own point of view—that of a respectable cottage dweller
whose great-great-grandfather had been born in a black-and-white timbered ..."
3. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"Cos set. A house pet. Apph'ed to а pet lamb brought up in the honte ; any pet.
(Anglo-Saxon, cot-teat, cottage- dweller; German, ..."
4. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Country Gentlemen (1875)
"... gardens—flowers the sweetest of all presents, and which the poorest cottage-dweller
may offer, and the daintiest lady in the land be pleased to receive. ..."
5. Garden Cities in Theory and Practice: Being an Amplification of a Paper on by Alfred Richard Sennett (1905)
"In another particular also bee-keeping is especially suitable as an additional
means of income to the cottage dweller: the outlay on material can be ..."
6. British Journal by George Cruikshank (1853)
"Reader, if you be a cottage-dweller, if you live all day amid the ceaseless wheels
of some huge factory, if you toil in the open air or till the yielding ..."
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