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The catwoman has been declawed.

A Queens woman who robbed an Astor Place boutique while wearing a cat mask was ordered caged for 10 years — and she went out hissing all the way.

“I am not the catwoman!” Shana Spalding shouted after being sentenced yesterday in Manhattan Supreme Court. “No! No! No!”

The 29-year-old Queens crook cried out for her mom and raged at court officers and photographers as she was led out in handcuffs.

The death-metal singer known as “Purgatory” was convicted in December of armed stick-ups at Arche Shoes on Astor Place and Cotélac, a SoHo sportswear shop .

Authorities said she prowled the shoe store in a cat mask in June 2010, then pounced two months later at the Greene Street store with a black scarf over her head.

A wanted poster for her first robbery showed the bandit in her feline getup, helping turn the catwoman into an Internet sensation.

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