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Definition of Calico cat
1. Noun. A cat having black and cream-colored and yellowish markings.
Generic synonyms: Domestic Cat, Felis Catus, Felis Domesticus, House Cat
Definition of Calico cat
1. Noun. (American English) A tortoiseshell and white domestic cat ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Calico Cat
Literary usage of Calico cat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Children's Literature: A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher by Charles Madison Curry (1921)
"302 THE DUEL EUGENE FIELD The gingham dog and the calico cat Side by side on the
table sat; ... And the calico cat .replied "Mee-ow!" The air was littered, ..."
2. Bedouins: Mary Garden, Debussy, Chopin Or the Circus, Botticelli, Poe by James Huneker (1920)
"Cats in calico may be seen on the streets any Gotham summer day, but a calico
cat—what in the world may that be? The simulacrum of a feline, an eidolon, ..."
3. Werner's Readings and Recitations (1906)
"'T'HE gingham dog and the calico cat 1 Side by side on the table sat, ... And the
calico cat replied "Me-ow!" And the air was streaked for an hour or so ..."
4. The Unitarian edited by Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott (1896)
"And the calico cat replied, "Me-ow !" And the air was streaked for an hour or so
With fragments of gingham and calico, While the old Dutch clock in the ..."
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