Definition of Calico cat

1. Noun. A cat having black and cream-colored and yellowish markings.


Definition of Calico cat

1. Noun. (American English) A tortoiseshell and white domestic cat ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Calico Cat

calicheamicin
calicheamicins
caliches
caliciform
caliciform cell
calicine
caliciviridae
caliciviridae infections
calicivirus
caliciviruses
calicle
calicles
calico
calico aster
calico bush
calico cat (current term)
calico cats
calico crab
calicoes
calicoplasty
calicos
calicotomy
calicular
caliculi
caliculus
caliculus gustatorius
calid
calidity
caliduct

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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