Cafes vs Cates - What's the difference?

cafes | cates |


As nouns the difference between cafes and cates

is that cafes is while cates is (archaic) provisions; food; viands; especially, luxurious food; delicacies; dainties.

cafes

English

Noun

(head)

    • Anagrams

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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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