"cathair" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1968, Benedict Kiely, Dogs Enjoy the Morning, Penguin Books, published 1971, page 18",
          "text": "A pimpled chin, dark with cathairs, a mouthful of irregular teeth, were visible below helmet and goggles.",
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          "ref": "1993, Allen Warfield, Al Brooks, Effective Telemarketing: How to Sell Over the Telephone, page 111",
          "text": "How can you tell a cat owner? all the little claw marks on their back. . .Or by the cathair that sticks to their suit.",
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          "ref": "1993, Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat Who Wasn't There",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1994, Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat Who Blew the Whistle, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, page 81",
          "text": "The closed-door policy, he liked to explain, kept the cats out of his hair and the cathairs out of his typewriter.",
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          "ref": "2000, Tamaqua: Volume Seven Issue One, page 75",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2000, Nimrod International Journal - Volume 44, page 128",
          "text": "Cat likes to brush against it and sun on the deck chair, the cushion is a mat of gray cathair.",
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        "The hair of a cat."
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          "ref": "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 MᶜGlashan, […]. William S. Orr & Co. […] London, part I (Pagan Antiquities), page 47",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1977, “The Dúns of Aran”, in A World of Stone: Life, Folklore and Legends of the Aran Islands, O’Brien Educational, published 1980, page 28",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1992, Theresa McDonald, Achill: 5000 B.C. to 1900 A.D.: Archaeology, History, Folklore, page 128",
          "text": "‘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.[…]’",
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          "ref": "1993, Allen Warfield, Al Brooks, Effective Telemarketing: How to Sell Over the Telephone, page 111",
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          "ref": "1993, Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat Who Wasn't There",
          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "Cat likes to brush against it and sun on the deck chair, the cushion is a mat of gray cathair.",
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