— cottaged , adj.
/kot"ij/ , n.
1. a small house, usually of only one story.
2. a small, modest house at a lake, mountain resort, etc., owned or rented as a vacation home.
3. one of a group of small, separate houses, as for patients at a hospital, guests at a hotel, or students at a boarding school.
[ 1350-1400; ME cotage. See COT 2 , -AGE; cf. ML cotagium, appar. ]