Talk:cat house

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Perhaps the name of a single one, in which case this is spam. --Connel MacKenzie 02:05, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

• I thought it was a well known term for a brothel. SemperBlotto 07:25, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Oh. Perhaps regional? --Connel MacKenzie 07:29, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
    • It is a well known term for a brothel. I don't think it is regional. It has certainly been used in the US and if I recall correctly John Steinbek has used it more than once in his writings.
    • The online big OED has this for cat-house (The OED is very fluid with spelling and hyphenation) -

(a) (see 6 above); (b) a house for cats; (c) slang, a brothel

(see 6 above) => A movable pent-house used in early times by besiegers to protect themselves in approaching fortifications, also called cat-house

I think I first heard it in a ?70s US film/musical -- I forget the title, but it included the song "I was born under a Wand'rin' Star". I thought it was more US than UK but perhaps I've just led a sheltered life. --Enginear 17:47, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

I have cited. Rfvpassed. Andrew massyn 03:06, 3 December 2006 (UTC)