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Cates vs Catel - What's the difference?

cates | catel |

As nouns the difference between cates and catel

is that cates is provisions; food; viands; especially, luxurious food; delicacies; dainties while catel is property, as distinguished from rent or income.

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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    catel

    English

    Noun

  • (obsolete) property, as distinguished from rent or income
    • (Chaucer)
    (Webster 1913)