cot·tage /ˈkɑtɪʤ/
 村舍,小屋;別墅


 Cot·tage n.  A small house; a cot; a hut.
 Note: ☞ The term was formerly limited to a habitation for the poor, but is now applied to any small tasteful dwelling; and at places of summer resort, to any residence or lodging house of rustic architecture, irrespective of size.
 Cottage allotment. See under Alloment. [Eng.]
 Cottage cheese, the thick part of clabbered milk strained, salted, and pressed into a ball.

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 cottage
      n : a small house with a single story [syn: bungalow]


 Cottage
    (1.) A booth in a vineyard (Isa. 1:8); a temporary shed covered
    with leaves or straw to shelter the watchman that kept the
    garden. These were slight fabrics, and were removed when no
    longer needed, or were left to be blown down in winter (Job
    27:18).

      (2.) A lodging-place (rendered "lodge" in Isa. 1:8); a
    slighter structure than the "booth," as the cucumber patch is
    more temporary than a vineyard (Isa. 24:20). It denotes a frail
    structure of boughs supported on a few poles, which is still in
    use in the East, or a hammock suspended between trees, in which
    the watchman was accustomed to sleep during summer.

      (3.) In Zeph. 2:6 it is the rendering of the Hebrew _keroth_,
    which some suppose to denote rather "pits" (R.V. marg., "caves")
    or "wells of water," such as shepherds would sink.