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  • noun Plural form of cattery.

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Examples

  • For more than a quarter of a century National Cat Shows have been held at Crystal Palace and the Westminster Aquarium, which have given great stimulus to the breeding of fine cats, and "catteries" where high-priced cats and kittens are raised are common throughout the country.

    Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others Helen M. Winslow

  • It aims also to establish straightforward and honest dealings among the catteries and to do away with the humbuggery which prevails in some quarters about the sales and valuation of high-bred cats.

    Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others Helen M. Winslow

  • My catteries were established in 1890, and at one time I had as many as

    Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others Helen M. Winslow

  • Ronner, and one could linger for hours in these delightful and most comfortable catteries watching their gambols.

    Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others Helen M. Winslow

  • It is at Kepwick Park that Mrs. McLaren Morrison has her celebrated "catteries."

    Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others Helen M. Winslow

  • If in all the histories of the wildcats of the wild catteries of Wall

    Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated Thomas William Lawson 1891

  • Adjacent to the busy dual carriageway around Basildon, with pylons overhead and two catteries for neighbours, the scrap yard was far from idyllic.

    The Guardian World News Patrick Barkham 2011

  • Mrs Watson, who used to work as an animal rescue volunteer, said she has contacted all the local catteries and checked with the council to see if he's been found dead.

    News round-up 2010

  • Mrs Watson, who used to work as an animal rescue volunteer, said she has contacted all the local catteries and checked with the council to see if he's been found dead.

    News round-up 2010

  • Mrs Watson, who used to work as an animal rescue volunteer, said she has contacted all the local catteries and checked with the council to see if he's been found dead.

    News round-up 2010

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