"cates" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Compare acates, and see cater.",
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          "ref": "a. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, act 3, scene 1, lines 155–158:",
          "text": "I had rather live / With cheese and garlic in a windmill, far, / Than feed on cates and have him talk to me / In any summer house in Christendom.",
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        {
          "ref": "1764, Charles Churchill, The Times:",
          "text": "Hath any rival glutton got the start, / And beat him in his own luxurious art; / Bought cates for which Apicius could not pay, / Or drest old dainties in a newer way?",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1855, Robert Browning, “Instans Tyrannus”, in Men and Women, lines 19–22:",
          "text": "I tempted his blood and his flesh, / Hid in roses my mesh, / Choicest cates and the flagon's best spilth— / Still he kept to his filth!",
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        "Provisions; food; viands; especially, luxurious food; delicacies; dainties."
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          "viands",
          "viands"
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          "luxurious"
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          "dainties",
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        "(archaic) Provisions; food; viands; especially, luxurious food; delicacies; dainties."
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        },
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