cottage

as in cabin
an often small house for recreational or seasonal use for a month every summer we rent a cottage on the ocean

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Recent Examples of cottage All this plays out against the Borg’s family home in Oslo, an old-world cottage that looks sprung from a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, but holding generations of memories and trauma, embedded in its walls. Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025 That includes much of Carmel-by-the-Sea, a village of 1920s storybook cottages with highly combustible wood-shingle roofs. Bloomberg, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025 My Big Terrace room felt more like a countryside cottage than a standard hotel suite and sat just below the outdoor yoga deck. Siobhan Reid, Travel + Leisure, 8 Sep. 2025 Fuel up for a day of leaf-peeping with the inn’s cottage cakes, its spin on pancakes served with warm apricot preserves. Sophie Friedman, AFAR Media, 4 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for cottage
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cabin
Noun
  • The music video pairs tribal ritualism with coastal dreaminess, leading viewers through a cabin lit by candlelight and a beach after sunset.
    Tere Aguilera, Billboard, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Specifically, there are five ADA-compliant cabins, all in the Terrace Suite category.
    Amanda Eyre Ward, Travel + Leisure, 12 Sep. 2025

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“Cottage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cottage. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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