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Cate vs Cates - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between cate and cates

is that cate is a delicacy or item of food while cates is provisions; food; viands; especially, luxurious food; delicacies; dainties.

As a proper noun Cate

is a diminutive of the female given name Catherine and of its variant forms; more often spelled Kate.

cate

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (in the plural) A delicacy or item of food.
  • * 1590s , (William Shakespeare), The Taming of the Shrew , First Folio 1623, Act I:
    • Kate of Kate-hall, my super-daintie Kate, / For dainties are all Kates , and therefore Kate / Take this of me, Kate of my consolation [...].
  • * 1603 , (John Florio), translating Michel de Montaigne, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1 p. 101:
    • Have we not heard of divers most fertile regions, plenteously yeelding al maner of necessary victuals, where neverthelesse the most ordinary cates and daintiest dishes, were but bread, water-cresses, and water?
  • * 1820 , (John Keats), The Eve of St. Agnes , l. 172-3:
    • All cates and dainties shall be storèd there / Quickly on this feast-night
  • * 1985 , (Anthony Burgess), Kingdom of the Wicked :
    • 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.
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    cates

    English

    Noun

    (en-plural noun)
  • (archaic) Provisions; food; viands; especially, luxurious food; delicacies; dainties.
  • * (Shakespeare)
  • * Churchill
    • Cates for which Apicius could not pay.
  • * Robert Browning
    • Choicest cates and the flagon's best spilth.
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