And on the other side of the enter key, they would almost invariably find forums collectively celebrating individuals’ secret desires, or enterprising smut-mongerscatering directly to them.
2020, Pamela Dickey Young, Heather Shipley, “Emerging-Adult Opinions on Religion and Sexuality”, inIdentities Under Construction: Religion, Gender, and Sexuality among Youth in Canada,McGill-Queen’s University Press,→ISBN, pages59–60:
Priya’s parents’ Hinduism seemed to present conflicting views of sex:[…] What people don’t know about theKama Sutra is that it’s actually a text that … very heavilycaters 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 theKama Sutra.
1898,The Hotel/Motor Hotel Monthly, volume 6, page27:
Agents' toilet room might be found in a house thatcaters for the cheaper class of theatrical patronage, where the slangy language of the "goin' to themat thisaft?" style prevails. Agents toilet room is not found in the Southern Hotel. It either "men's" or "gentlemen's".
1998, Sherry Saggers, Dennis Gray,Dealing with Alcohol: Indigenous Usage in Australia, New Zealand and Canada,page108:
The former werecatered for both by liquor stores and, to a lesser extent, by the bottle shops of hotels.
2022 February 10, Zhuang Pinghui, “Omicron cases crash in ‘vital window’ for China city Baise’s outbreak battle”, inSouth China Morning Post[1],→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original onFebruary 10, 2022, Science[2]:
Huludao’s Xingcheng county and two districts have ordered entertainment venues such as theatres and cinemas to close, while restaurants are not to offer banqueting services orcater for large gatherings.
Probably ultimately fromFrenchquatre(“four”), possibly viacater(“change-ringing”), although Liberman argues for a derivation from aNorth Germanic prefix meaning "crooked,angled,clumsy" from which he also derivescater-cousin and, via Norse, Old Irishcittach(“left-handed,awkward”). He finds this more likely than extension of the dice and change-ringing termcater as an adverb, given the likely cognates in other Germanic languages.Caterpillar andcaterwaul are unrelated, being derived from cognates tocat, but may have influenced the pronunciation of Liberman's proposed earlier*cate- or undergone similar sound changes.
1881, Sebastian Evans,Leicestershire Words, Phrases, and Proverbs, s.v. "Cater and Cater-cornered":
Cater and Cater-cornered, diagonal; diagonally. To ‘cutcater’ in the case of velvet, cloth, etc., is... ‘cut on the cross’.Cater-snozzle, to make an angle; to ‘mitre’.
1872, Henry Thomas Ellacombe,The Bells of Church, page29:
The very terms of the art are enough to frighten an amateur. Hunting, dodging...caters, cinques, etc.
1878, George Grove,A Dictionary of Music and Musicians, s.v. "Cater":
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.
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