Noun
cothouse (plural cothouses)
- (Scotland) A small cottage, especially one that was the home of a cottar.
1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:He was good to look on, brawly dressed, and with a tongue in his head that would have wiled the bird from the tree. Moreover, he was of gentle kin, and she was a poor lass biding in a cot house with an ill-reputed mother.