Japan cat

noun

A toast rack (“rack for holding toasted bread”).

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Meanings

nounJapan cat (plural Japan cats)

plural Japan cats

  1. datedA toast rack (“rack for holding toasted bread”).

    ["I]t was only last Christmas that I bought my Japan cat. / "Dear me," said Miss Jemima; "a Japan cat! that must be very curious. What sort of a creature is it?" / "Don't you know? Bless me, a thing with three legs, and holds toast! [...]"

    1853, Pisistratus Caxton [pseudonym; Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter XI, in “My Novel”; Or Varieties in English Life […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book first, page 59
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Japan cat. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Japan%20cat

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“Japan cat.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Japan%20cat. Accessed November 4, 2026.

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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Japan cat,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Japan%20cat.

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