clowder
\ KLOU-der \, noun;
1.a group or cluster of cats.
Quotes:
"That's a fine clowder of cats you have, Aunt Alex," I told the old dowager one day when I was bringing her some peanut brittle from my mother.
-- Noel Perrin, "Don't Give Me One Dozen Roses, Give Me a Nosegay," The New Yorker , April 4, 1959
A clowder of scrawny cats was busy in a heap of fishbones, while a couple of others groomed themselves in doorways and on window-sills.
-- Ross King, "Ex-Libris ," 1998
Origin:
Clowder comes from the term clodder meaning "clotted mass." It entered English in the late 1700s.
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