Cate
Pronunciation
- IPA: /keɪt/
- Rhymes: -eɪt
Origin
Aphetized from acate.
Full definition of cate
Noun
cate
(plural cates)- (in the plural) A delicacy or item of food.
- 1590s, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, First Folio 1623, Act I:Kate of Kate-hall, my super-daintie Kate,
For dainties are all Kates, and therefore Kate
Take this of me, Kate of my consolation .... - 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1 p. 101:Have we not heard of divers most fertile regions, plenteously yeelding al maner of necessary victuals, where neverthelesse the most ordinary cates and daintiest dishes, were but bread, water-cresses, and water?
- 1820, John Keats, The Eve of St. Agnes, l. 172-3:All cates and dainties shall be storèd there
Quickly on this feast-night - 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:He did not at first produce the cates and vintages they expected; they looked, most of them, puzzled at the lack of materials of revelry.----