| \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 |
| Origin |
| Clowder comes from the term clodder meaning "clotted mass." It entered English in the late 1700s. |
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