cat café

See also: cat cafe

English

a cat café in Japan

Alternative forms

• cat cafe (acute accent not mandatory)

Pronunciation

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Noun

cat café (plural cat cafés)

1. A café that has domestic cats with which the clientele can interact.
   • 2016 April 22, Richard Smart, “Japanese cat cafe closed down over neglect fears”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Taiwan opened the world’s first cat cafe in 1998 and Japan followed suit in 2004. Since then, the number of animal cafes has proliferated in Japan, where many people live in apartment buildings that forbid pets.

Translations

café with domestic cats

• Finnish: kissakahvila (fi)
• French: bar à chats (fr) m, café à chats (fr) m
• German: Katzencafé n
• Japanese: 猫カフェ (nekokafe)
• Russian: коша́чье кафе́ n (košáčʹje kafé), котокафе́ (ru) n (kotokafé)
• Swedish: kattkafé n, kattcafé n

Further reading

• cat café on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• catface