Cathairとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

cathair (countable and uncountable, plural cathairs)

1. (uncountable) The hair of a cat.
   • 1993, Allen Warfield, Al Brooks, Effective Telemarketing: How to Sell Over the Telephone, page 111:

     How can you tell a cat owner? all the little claw marks on their back...Or by the cathair that sticks to their suit.

   • 1993, Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat Who Wasn't There:

     The conscientious Mrs. Fulgrove was driving away as he pulled into the barnyard, and he waved to her; the woman's scowl indicated that she had worked overtime because of the vast amount of cathair everywhere.

   • 2000, Tamaqua: Volume Seven Issue One, page 75:

     Meditate on the steady drone and the rocking of the back and forth vacuum dance you do as you suck up the cathair, the ashes, the seeds, the stray leaves.

   • 2000, Nimrod International Journal - Volume 44, page 128:

     Cat likes to brush against it and sun on the deck chair, the cushion is a mat of gray cathair.

2. (countable) A single hair of a cat.
   • 1968, Benedict Kiely, Dogs Enjoy the Morning, Penguin Books, published 1971, page 18:

     A pimpled chin, dark with cathairs, a mouthful of irregular teeth, were visible below helmet and goggles.

   • 1994, Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat Who Blew the Whistle, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, page 81:

     The closed-door policy, he liked to explain, kept the cats out of his hair and the cathairs out of his typewriter.

   • 2001 May 29, Adrian Vickers, “It's a Dulux day”, in uk.misc‎ (Usenet), archived from the original on 10 August 2025:

     I'm sure they use the same stuff that sticks cathairs to clothes in paint. It's just as difficult to remove... […] [T]he first law of cathairs is they get everywhere, including where it's physically impossible, etc.

語源 2

From Irish cathair.

名詞

cathair (plural cathairs)

1. An ancient Irish fortification of stone or earthwork.
   • 1848, William F[rederick] Wakeman, “Raths or Duns”, in Archæologia Hibernica. A Hand-book of Irish Antiquities, Pagan and Christian: Especially of Such as Are Easy of Access from the Irish Metropolis., Dublin: James MGlashan, […]. William S. Orr & Co. […] London, part I (Pagan Antiquities), page 47:

     Several cathairs which we have examined are not circular in plan, but appear to have been formed to suit the contour of the eminence upon which they stand; and others are of an oval form.

   • 1977, “The Dúns of Aran”, in A World of Stone: Life, Folklore and Legends of the Aran Islands, O’Brien Educational, published 1980, →ISBN, page 28:

     There were probably other cathairs and duns on the Aran Islands which were not as sturdily built or not as well preserved as those that survived.

   • 1992, Theresa McDonald, Achill: 5000 B.C. to 1900 A.D.: Archaeology, History, Folklore, →ISBN, page 128:

     ‘On this island there are three cyclopean cathairs but their stones have been nearly all removed to build the modern little houses which are nearly in as rude a style as the Cahirs ever were. […]’

アナグラム

• Cathari, Chaitra, chirata, cithara