“He used his cottage in the mountains as a base for hill walking, which he practiced well into his seventies.”

“Following an addition to his already numerous family, a poor cottager went out at night in search of a godfather for his newly born child.”

“The cottager turned out of his own bed to let the agent sleep in it, and went to sleep with his cow.”

“Every cottager kept a pig, which was killed in autumn and preserved to provide food through winter.”

“The cotes are the subject of constant campaigning and the standards have risen across the board.”

“Last week Town Council members decided to look into providing one or two pigeon cotes around the town.”

“My neighbour Hassan Sheikh lived on the terrace of his building, in a single room surrounded by cotes for his pigeons.”