Cottage vs Thatched - What's the difference?
cottage | thatched |
A small house; a cot; a hut.
A seasonal home of any size or stature. A recreational home or a home in a remote location.
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, title= (UK, slang, dated) A public toilet.
To stay at a seasonal home, to go cottaging.
(intransitive, British, slang) Of men: To have homosexual sex in a public lavatory; to practice cottaging.
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(thatch)
Straw, rushes, or the like, used for making or covering the roofs of buildings, or of stacks of hay or grain.
A name in the West Indies for several kinds of palm, the leaves of which are used for thatching.
A buildup of cut grass, stolons or other material on the soil in a lawn.
To cover the roof with straw, reed, leaves, etc.
As verbs the difference between cottage and thatched
is that cottage is to stay at a seasonal home, to go cottaging while thatched is (thatch).As a noun cottage
is a small house; a cot; a hut.cottage
English
Noun
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