catwalk

cat +‎ walk

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catwalk (plural catwalks)

1. (nautical) An elevated enclosed passage providing access fore and aft from the bridge of a merchant vessel.
2. Any similar elevated walkway.
   • 1963 June, “News and Comment: Victoria line engineering works”, in Modern Railways, page 370:

     The lengthening [of the District Line platforms] is being done so that passengers will no longer have to use the narrow catwalks to enter and leave the front and rear portions of eight-car trains.

3. A narrow elevated stage on which models parade; a runway
4. (by extension, "the catwalk") The business of making clothes for fashion shows.

• (platform for fashion shows): runway

• → Norwegian Bokmål: catwalk
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: catwalk

Borrowed from English catwalk.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɛt.ʋɑlk/
• Hyphenation: cat‧walk

catwalk m (plural catwalks)

1. catwalk (narrow elevated stage on which models parade)

• platform
• podium

From English catwalk.

catwalk m (definite singular catwalken, indefinite plural catwalker, definite plural catwalkene)

1. (especially fashion) a catwalk

• “catwalk” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “catwalk” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

From English catwalk.

catwalk m (definite singular catwalken, indefinite plural catwalkar, definite plural catwalkane)

1. (especially fashion) a catwalk

• “catwalk” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.