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Cats vs Cates - What's the difference?

cats | cates |

As nouns the difference between cats and cates

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

cats

English

Noun

(head)
  • (Internet, shorthand, slang)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (cat)

    • 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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