cat cafe

Or cat ca·fé

[kat ka-fey, kuh-fey]

noun

1. a business establishment that has numerous cats available for customers to play with, and usually offers food and drinks.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cat cafe¹

First recorded in 2010–15

Example Sentences

A book club meets a cat cafe at Long Beach’s Cool Cat Collective, a gallery and boutique committed to fighting cat overpopulation in L.A.

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A popular silent reading party, co-hosted by reading club LB Bookworms, mimics a cat cafe, and according to the book club’s founder, Martha Esquivias, the event has sold out nearly every month since its debut last November.

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On his social media accounts he has been showing off his guitar skills and discussing the national budget at a cat cafe.

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I got them through a cat rescue called Tail Town Cats in Pasadena; it has a cat cafe where you can sit in a room and just get covered in cats.

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It’s a cat cafe where people can go and get a cup of coffee and hang out with the cats, and a lot of times they end up adopting them.

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