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cat's-meat|ˈkætsmiːt| The flesh of horses, etc., prepared and sold by street dealers as food for domestic cats. Also attrib., as in cat's-meat-man.
1593Nashe Strange News Ep. Ded. Wks. 1883–4 II. 180 We haue cattes meate and dogges meate inough for these mungrels. 1632Massinger Maid of Hon. iii. i, I will cry broom, or cat's-meat, in Palermo. 1826in Hone Every-day Bk. II. 861, I saw her pass with her cats-meat barrow. 1836Dickens Pickw. xxxiii, Purveyor of cat's-meat to the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs. 1836E. Howard R. Reefer lvi, A parcel of..dogs..following the catsmeat-man's barrow. |