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cate

[ keyt ]

noun

, Archaic.
  1. a choice food;delicacy; dainty.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of cate1

1425–75; back formation from late Middle English cates, aphetic variant of Middle English acates things bought, plural of acat buying < Old North French, derivative of acater to buy < Vulgar Latin *accaptāre, equivalent to Latin ac- ac- + captāre to seek out; catch

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Example Sentences

And how about Cate Blanchett in her Oscar speech saying, “The world is round, people!”

Cate Blanchett was perfectly Blanchett-y winning Best Actress.

So Cate Blanchett and Julia Roberts apparently have an inside joke.

She even indicted Blanchett, writing, “What if it had been your child, Cate Blanchett?”

Stars like Leonardo DiCaprio, Bradley Cooper, and Cate Blanchett will light up the red carpet.

I quite think, and in this others agree with me, that it has nothing to do with the cat, but was originally cate.

It was no easy matter; frequently the cake or cate went in the fire or lodged in the chimney.

The poet's imagination, continues Judge Cate, was wonderful.

The silk of the darca, of all colors, is worth forty taes in Canton, and is sold by the libra in Xapon at nine maçes per cate.

It costs eight reals per cate in Canton, and is sold in Xapon at fifteen and sixteen, according to its quality.

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