calico cat

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of calico cat¹

First recorded in 1950–55

Example Sentences

Chloe was a calico cat, yellow, with patches of dark and white spots.

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It was completely empty except for a calico cat moving purposefully toward Manhattan.

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Let not the drum major, gaudy as a calico cat, and his melodious cohort, be forgotten.

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Perhaps like “the gingham dog and the calico cat”, they “ate each other up”.

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There in the sun, prone upon the top of the fence, dozed the bane of his life—the Calico Cat.

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