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cates

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cates [keɪts]
pl n
(Cookery) (sometimes singular) Archaic choice dainty food; delicacies
[variant of acates purchases, from Old Northern French acater to buy, from Vulgar Latin accaptāre (unattested); ultimately related to Latin acceptāre to accept]
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  Bring cates and wines for sacrificial feasts,
The Devil's Dictionary by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
how simple, to these cates compared, Was that crude Apple that diverted Eve
Paradise Regained by Milton, John View in context
For you get your living in the water, but I am used to each such foods as men have: I never miss the thrice-kneaded loaf in its neat, round basket, or the thin-wrapped cake full of sesame and cheese, or the slice of ham, or liver vested in white fat, or cheese just curdled from sweet milk, or delicious honey-cake which even the blessed gods long for, or any of all those cates which cooks make for the feasts of mortal men, larding their pots and pans with spices of all kinds.
Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica by Homer View in context
 
 
 
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