Cape Cod

noun

a sandy peninsula in SE Massachusetts between Cape Cod Bay and the Atlantic Ocean: many resort towns.
a style of cottage developed mainly on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in the 18th and early 19th centuries, typically a rectangular one- or one-and-a-half story wooden cottage covered by a gable roof and having a central chimney.

Cape Cod

a long sandy peninsula in SE Massachusetts, between Cape Cod Bay and the Atlantic
Also calledCape Cod cottage a one-storey cottage of timber construction with a simple gable roof and a large central chimney: originated on Cape Cod in the 18th century

Cape Cod

Resort area on the Atlantic Ocean in Massachusetts . Its fishhook shape is easily recognized on a map.

The difference was clear to Sonia Little, who came from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, to attend both climate marches.

There is some debate about whether line should be drawn just to the west of Vienna or just to the east of Cape Cod.

RS: They sit in a faculty room, or in a cottage on Cape Cod.

Baxter is a full-grown long-haired chihuahua who likes howling along to Vampire Weekend's 2008 hit song "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa."

The Kennedy Library released never-before-seen footage of JFK vacationing in Cape Cod with his family.

The emigrant from the sandbanks of Cape Cod revels in the profusion of the opulence of Ohio.

The first land he saw he named Cape Cod, because he found so many codfish there.

After dawn one November morning they sighted land, and recognized Cape Cod, well known to previous mariners.

Cape Cod to the Golden Gate with a lot of young folks along, and plenty of yarns by the way.

On the eleventh day of November, 1620, the vessel anchored near Cape Cod.

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