cat-fur

English

Noun

cat-fur (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of cat fur
    • 1992, Phee Line, Kate Taylor, How to train your cat, →ISBN, page 55:
      It should be able to make out the many thousands of cat-fur bugs which live in such heaps.
    • 1994, Mark Twain, Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches, →ISBN:
      They spat and clawed and fought until they dimmed away and finally disappeared in a flying fog of cat-fur.
    • 2013, Cornelia Funke, Fearless, →ISBN:
      The statue sitting on the throne wore the Warlock's cat-fur coat, but it also showed Guismond as a warrior King.
    • 2015, Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass, →ISBN:
      Lyra could see nothing: her face was buried in Pantalaimon's cat-fur.
    • 2015, Toby Clements, Winter Pilgrims, →ISBN, page 329:
      Dafydd rides alongside, smothered in his travelling cloak with a baggy cat-fur hat on his head.

Usage notes

This form is used primarily, but not exclusively, for when the term is used attributively.

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