cottage

A cottage is typically a small house. It may carry the connotation of being an old or old-fashioned building. In modern usage, a cottage is usually a modest, often cosy dwelling, typically in a rural or semi-rural location. The cottage orné [French 华丽的], often quite large and grand residences built by the nobility, dates back to a movement of "rustic" stylised cottages of the late 18th and early 19th century during the Romantic movement.

• connotation: a quality or an idea that a word makes you think of that is more than its basic meaning →association, denotation, notation

In British English the term now denotes a small dwelling of traditional build, although it can also be applied to modern construction designed to resemble traditional houses ("mock cottages"). Cottages may be detached houses, or terraced, such as those built to house workers in mining villages. The tied accommodation provided to farm workers was usually a cottage, see cottage garden. In England the term holiday cottage now denotes a specialised form of residential let property, attracting various tax-benefits to the owner.

• The cottage garden is a distinct style that uses informal design, traditional materials, dense plantings, and a mixture of ornamental and edible plants.

The holiday cottage exists in many cultures under different names. In American English, "cottage" is one term for such holiday homes, although they may also be called a "cabin", "chalet" [Swiss French 小木屋], or even "camp". In certain countries (e.g. Scandinavia, Baltics, and Russia 斯堪的纳维亚、波罗的海和俄罗斯) the term "cottage" has local synonyms: In Finnish mökki, in Estonian [爱沙尼亚] suvila, in Latvian vasarnīca, in Livonian sõvvõkuodā, in Swedish stuga, in Norwegian hytte (from the German word Hütte), in Czech chata or chalupa, in Russian дача (dacha, which can refer to a vacation/summer home, often located near a body of water).

There are cottage-style dwellings in American cities that were built primarily for the purpose of housing enslaved people.

In places such as Canada, "cottage" carries no connotations of size (compare with vicarage or hermitage).

• A vicarage is a house in which a vicar lives.
• A hermitage is a place where a hermit lives or has lived.

The word cottage (Medieval Latin cotagium) derives from Old English cot, cote "hut" and Old French cot "hut, cottage", from Old Norse kot "hut" and related to Middle Low German kotten (cottage, hut). Examples of this may be found in 15th century manor court rolls [official list, register]. The house of the cottage bore the Latin name: "domus", while the barn of the cottage was termed "grangia".

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