English

Alternative spellings

cat flap

Etymology

From cat + flap

Noun
en-noun

1. Small hinged panel, usually cut into a door, with an opening just big enough for a cat to enter.

#*1984, Randolph Stow, The Suburbs of Hell: A Novel, Taplinger, ISBN 0800874870, p. 137,
#*: Harry Ufford opened his front door, and his animals, from the yard, came bursting through the cat-flap in the back door and rushed on him.
#*1985, Derek Albert Pearsall, The Canterbury Tales (in his introduction to Chaucer's Miller's Tale), Routledge (UK), ISBN 0415094445, p. 182,
#*: We could find our way blindfold about old John's house, with its cat-flap in Nicholas's bedroom-door.
#*2006, Robert Graham, Holy Joe, Troubador, ISBN 1904744826, p. 141,
#*: While she's distracted, Batman and Robin make heroic, synchronised leaps off the fridge onto the lino and crash hell for leather, one after the other, through the cat-flap. The cat-flap's plastic frame collapses in pieces on the floor behind them.

Translations
French: chatière f

See also
doggie door
pet door

Category:Cats

• 2007-07-04 18:46 - AutoFormat - gender -[[chatière]] ''f'' +[[chatière]] {{f}}

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