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cottagecore

cottagecore noun: an aesthetic that celebrates a return to traditional skills and crafts associated with rural living, such as sewing, gardening, foraging, baking, and pottery.

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Noun

cottagecore (uncountable)

  1. (aesthetic) An aesthetic that celebrates a return to traditional skills and crafts associated with rural living, such as sewing, gardening, foraging, baking, and pottery.
    • If you've ever yearned for an idyllic life in the country, then cottagecore is for you.2021, Emily Kent, The Little Book of Cottagecore: Traditional Skills for a Simpler Life, page 5
    • Underneath the clutter, the twin-size mattress was covered with a patchwork quilt and sheets dotted with tiny pink roses. There was a ruffled mint green bed skirt to match the ruffled gingham valance above the window. It was like standing in the cottagecore Holy Land.2021, Susannah Nix, Elementary Romantic Calculus, unnumbered page

cottagecore meaning in Tamil

cottagecore in Tamil

கவின் குடில்

Examples of cottagecore in a sentence

  • Photographs of cottagecore focuses on countrysides or forests.
  • In one way, it’s the latest “core” trend, following in the wake of cottagecore and cluttercore.
  • Cottagecore has been trending ever since the pandemic set in and the world went slow.

All 11 example sentences with cottagecore

Forms of cottagecore

alternative formcottage-core

Origin of cottagecore

From cottage + -core.

Questions about cottagecore

What does cottagecore mean?
Cottagecore means an aesthetic that celebrates a return to traditional skills and crafts associated with rural living, such as sewing, gardening, foraging, baking, and pottery.
What is cottagecore in Tamil?
Cottagecore in Tamil is கவின் குடில். See Cottagecore meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is cottagecore?
Cottagecore is a noun.

Words near cottagecore in the dictionary

  1. cottage suites
  2. cottage witch
  3. cottage-cheese ass
  4. cottage-cheese asses
  5. cottage-core
  6. cottagecore
  7. cottaged
  8. cottageless
  9. cottagelike
  10. cottager
  11. cottagers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cottagecore (page history and authors); cottagecore (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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