I am reading Takashi Hiraide's The Guest Cat and I am stuck on the following
passage.

> 前夜はめずらしく玄関から入ってきたので、 専用の出入口を、 ついうっかり閉め たままにしていたのである。
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> 以後、「チビちゃんの望郷」とそれを呼んで、 世間的にもめずらしいだろう姿をたびたび思い出した。
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> やはりうちの猫ではないのだ、ということを、 妻は別のしかたで知らされている。

I have problem with

> 世間的にもめずらしいだろう姿をたびたび思い出した。

How I should understand it? My attempt is: "I often remembered form/appearance
which was uncommon even in society/world." Thank you for any help.
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reading-comprehension literature
Strange sentence in The Guest Cat
I cannot tell from your excerpt what exactly それ refers to, but it is probably
a peculiar way this cat behaved when it couldn’t enter the house one day
because the cat flap was closed. Whatever it was like, there must have been
something to it that made the speaker think it is uncommon, and he believes it
is uncommon by the standards of 世間 (ordinary people in general), too.

世間的にもめずらしいだろう modifies the noun 姿 as an adjectival (or “relative”) clause.
Judging from your translation attempt, I think you got this right.

Translating も as “even” is not bad, either. The speaker thinks it is uncommon
even by the standards of 世間, not only in his own judgment.

だろう adds the sense of “probably” because the speaker cannot be completely sure
if 世間 agree it is uncommon.

If your doubt is about 世間, it’s not a very easy word to translate. Here, it
refers to society in general, or people that compose it, as opposed to the
speaker as an individual.
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