cottage n
   Attrib, comb cottage meeting: Salvation Army service held in a private home.
   M 69-16 In 1915 the few families of Salvation Army there began to hold cottage meetings. A few years later, 1917, they built a church.
   cottage range: cheaply-built row of small adjoined wooden houses.
   1936 DEVINE 87 Galleghy's range and beyond Vail's bakery breaking in on the isolation of the cottage ranges of the Kerrymen, who had fled there 'out in the woods' in the early days to live in peace out of the way, with a little house of their own, and to be clear of the hated landlord. A few of those cottages remain to-day.
   cottage roof: hip roof.
   [1911] LENCH 5 [The church was built on the old fashioned plan and] had a cottage roof like John Stretton's Meeting House in Harbour Grace, and the greater Methodist Church in Carbonear. 1972 MURRAY 181-2 Another type mentioned was the 'cottage roofed' house. This was also two-stories, but the roof had four equally sloping sides. 1974 MANNION 148 Over a dozen dwellings along the Cape Shore had a 4-sided or hipped roof, locally called a 'bell' or 'cottage' roof.

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