Definitions
A delicacy or item of food.
Word origin
Aphetized from acate, from Old Northern French acat (“purchase”).
Used in a sentence
“Kate of Kate-hall, my super-daintie Kate, / For dainties are all Kates, and therefore Kate / Take this of me, Kate of my consolation […]”
“All cates and dainties shall be stored there / Quickly on this feast-night: [...]”
“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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Choice food”4 letters
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