"cate" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Aphetized from acate, from Old Northern French acat (“purchase”).",
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      "form": "cates",
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          "ref": "1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1 p. 101",
          "text": "Have we not heard of divers most fertile regions, plenteously yeelding al maner of necessary victuals, where neverthelesse the most ordinary cates [translating méz] and daintiest dishes, were but bread, water-cresses, and water?"
        },
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          "ref": "1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked",
          "text": "He did not at first produce the cates and vintages they expected; they looked, most of them, puzzled at the lack of materials of revelry.",
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        "A delicacy or item of food."
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        "(in the plural) A delicacy or item of food."
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      "ipa": "/keɪt/"
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    {
      "homophone": "Kate"
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      "rhymes": "-eɪt"
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        },
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        "(in the plural) A delicacy or item of food."
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