COCOTTE • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Cocotte

... when it was a day old. The poor little thing was put in a card-board box, where it cried all the way home. I kept it in a cage made of an old box for several weeks, fearing the cat would take it for a bird, and eat it up. I call it Cocotte. It is very tame, and follows me everywhere, but its favorite place is in the kitchen closet, keeping guard over the oatmeal bag, which contains its principal food, although it will eat any kind of meat with the cats, and ...

— Harper's Young People, October 5, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various