calico cat

noun

a domestic cat, especially a female one, of variegated black, yellow, and white coloring.

Origin of calico cat

First recorded in 1950–55

Chloe was a calico cat, yellow, with patches of dark and white spots.
Daisy | Miranda Eliot Swan
It was completely empty except for a calico cat moving purposefully toward Manhattan.
The Most Sentimental Man | Evelyn E. Smith
Let not the drum major, gaudy as a calico cat, and his melodious cohort, be forgotten.
The Army Mule and Other War Sketches | Henry A. Castle
Perhaps like “the gingham dog and the calico cat”, they “ate each other up”.
The Pinos Altos Story | Dorothy Watson
There in the sun, prone upon the top of the fence, dozed the bane of his life—the calico cat.
The Calico Cat | Charles Miner Thompson

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