0 a small house, usually in the countryside: --
1 a small house, usually away from a city or town --
The production system was transformed from a cottage industry into a factory system by the early 1910s.
The idea of a multi-million dollar cottage industry is a contradiction in terms.
Of that cottage we must see more hereafter; it does not lie in our road now.
The vulnerability of the medieval house or cottage ensured that it needed constant attention.
Cottage accommodation, whilst being limited, was usually of a high standard.
Each of the cottages and the main building had a small kitchen, toilets and shower facilities.
The course of improved manufacture which followed, was to spin the yarn in factories and to weave it in cottages.
In contrast, the cottage range dwellings of the farm labourers appear to be undivided and there is usually little evidence for an end-wall fireplace.
