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Rates vs Cates - What's the difference?

rates | cates |

As nouns the difference between rates and cates

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

rates

English

Noun

(head)
  • (British or Australian ) Taxes, usually on property, levelled by local government.

    • Derived terms

    * ratepayer

    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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