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"text": "Priya’s parents’ Hinduism seemed to present conflicting views of sex: […] What people don’t know about the Kama Sutra is that it’s actually a text that … very heavily caters to Madonna/whore complexes. That it’s actually quite misogynistic. And that it’s actually catered more for male pleasure and … males always will have the upper hand according to the Kama Sutra.",
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"raw_glosses": [
"(card games, dice games, obsolete) The four of cards or dice."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"topics": [
"card-games",
"dice",
"games"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Music"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1872, Henry Thomas Ellacombe, The Bells of Church, page 29:",
"text": "The very terms of the art are enough to frighten an amateur. Hunting, dodging... caters, cinques, etc.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1878, George Grove, A Dictionary of Music and Musicians, s.v. \"Cater\":",
"text": "Cater... The name given by change ringers to changes of nine bells. The word should probably be written quaters, as it is meant to denote the fact that four couples of bells change their places in the order of ringing.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A method of ringing nine bells in four pairs with a ninth tenor bell."
],
"links": [
[
"music",
"music"
],
[
"method",
"method"
],
[
"ring",
"ring"
],
[
"nine",
"nine"
],
[
"bell",
"bell"
],
[
"four",
"four"
],
[
"pair",
"pair"
],
[
"ninth",
"ninth"
],
[
"tenor",
"tenor"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(music) A method of ringing nine bells in four pairs with a ninth tenor bell."
],
"topics": [
"entertainment",
"lifestyle",
"music"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈkeɪtə/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈkatə/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈkeɪtəɹ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "keito",
"sense": "four of cards or dice",
"word": "ケイト"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "four of cards or dice",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kwadr"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "four of cards or dice",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kwater"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "four of cards or dice",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "quadra"
}
],
"word": "cater"
}
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