The phrase "lake cottage" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a small house or cabin located by a lake, often used for vacation or leisure purposes.
Example: "Every summer, we spend our weekends at the lake cottage, enjoying the peaceful surroundings and the water activities."
Alternatives: "lake house" or "cabin by the lake."
Built on the west shore of Lake Placid in 1882 as a humble lake cottage, the Lake Placid Lodge, (518) 523-2700, fax (518) 523-1124, www.lakeplacidlodge.com, is today a refurbished luxury hotel, part of the Relais & Châteaux group.
Relief in the form of summers spent fishing at the family's lake cottage.
Our Newfound Lake cottage, with its mismatched furniture, stacks of old National Geographics in the bedroom and an ancient Scrabble game with tiles missing, filled the bill perfectly.
The accuser, now a teacher, came forward in 2002, at age 52, stating that Father Murphy had sexually abused him at his lake cottage.
"It's off the beaten path," said Philip M. Alden, a retired management consultant who bought his lake cottage as a "newcomer" in 1978.
The story of a family's last summer together at their lake cottage following the father's death, it is, in Ms. Lyons's estimation, an ideal vacation book.
There are a lot of lake cottages built in the 1930s and 1940s for the T.V.A. workers.
By the turn of the century, South Haven and many of its neighboring lumber-, fruit- and fur-trading towns had become major tourist destinations, filled with summer resorts, lake cottages, pavilions, casinos, theaters and opera houses.
No one has tried to mass-market Michigan lake-cottage clothes, for example, or Mississippi Delta resortwear.
The Silver Lake court cottage looks like the neglected back room of a slumping thrift shop, its contents to be filed when there's room up front.
When the governor admitted he had lied about gifts given to him by political appointees and state contractors for his Bantam Lake vacation cottage, Ms. Rell expressed her disappointment.
