cates
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Is cates a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (archaic) Provisions; food; viands; especially, luxurious food; delicacies; dainties.Examples: "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."; "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?"; "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!"archaicpluralplural-only
Definition source: Wiktionary