"cottaging" meaning in English

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          "text": "Most homosexuals have at some periods in their lives been out 'trolling' and many of them admitted to 'cottaging' in their earlier days, especially those who lived outside London where this practice seems to be much more widely established.",
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        "Sexual activity in a public lavatory, especially homosexual activity between men."
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          "ref": "2004, C. Michael Hall, Dieter K. Muller, Tourism, Mobility and Second Homes, page 69:",
          "text": "This comparison between the commercial cottager and the private cottager begins to give us an insight into differences between the private cottager and the commercial cottager, a difference that has implications for the relation of cottaging to city life.",
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