Meanings
- alternativeuncountableAlternative form of cat fur.
Lyra could see nothing: her face was buried in Pantalaimon's cat-fur.
2015, Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass, →ISBN4 more examples
It should be able to make out the many thousands of cat-fur bugs which live in such heaps.
1992, Phee Line, Kate Taylor, How to train your cat, →ISBN, page 55They spat and clawed and fought until they dimmed away and finally disappeared in a flying fog of cat-fur.
1994, Mark Twain, Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches, →ISBNThe statue sitting on the throne wore the Warlock's cat-fur coat, but it also showed Guismond as a warrior King.
2013, Cornelia Funke, Fearless, →ISBNDafydd rides alongside, smothered in his travelling cloak with a baggy cat-fur hat on his head.
2015, Toby Clements, Winter Pilgrims, →ISBN, page 329
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