calico
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"Lizards, skinks and dragons were secured in calico bags. These bags were concealed in bags of popcorn, biscuit tins and a women's handbag and placed inside cardboard boxes," the statement said.
From Barron's ● Feb. 17, 2026
"Here's my offering - the shorthair is a boy named Bob and the calico is a girl named Marley."
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2025
Scientists have long been fascinated by tortoiseshell and calico cats: the offspring of a black cat and an orange cat.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 27, 2024
The curious calico and her orange tomcat friend, Monu, had recently been sterilized and returned to the market.
From Salon ● Oct. 14, 2024
I looked, as he commanded: Mama Mwanza with her disfigured legs and her small, noble head both wrapped in bright yellow calico.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
The Hansons' cat is specifically a torn, and cat lovers soon pointed out that all calicoes are female.
From Time Magazine Archive
By the Victorian era, odd batches of brocade, chintzes and calicoes were patched into crazy quilts, more a tour de force in stitchery than in pattern.
From Time Magazine Archive
If she had been home, she might have spent the dark afternoons spinning or sewing, but the mistress bought her woolens and calicoes at the village stores.
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
The calicoes of that day were both dear and homely; and it required money to enable a woman to appear in a dress that would be thought attractive to the least practised eye.
From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by Cooper, James Fenimore
Women had come in bright-hued calicoes and sun-bonnets, and bearded, gaunt men in hodden-gray.
From The Code of the Mountains by Buck, Charles Neville
Most orange cats are boys, a quirk of feline genetics that also explains why almost all calicos and tortoiseshells are girls.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 27, 2024
Scientists curious about those sex differences—or perhaps just cat lovers—have spent more than 60 years unsuccessfully seeking the gene that causes orange fur and the striking patchwork of colors in calicos and tortoiseshells.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 27, 2024
The prints are Laura Ashley-esque micro-florals, calicos and gingham, the necklines are high, sometimes there is a bib or apron, there is usually at least one ruffle.
From New York Times ● Sep. 12, 2018
Rainbow and cc have different coloring, for example, since the coats of calicos are determined partly by genes and partly by random molecular changes during development.
From Time Magazine Archive
The storekeeper took down bolts and bolts of beautiful calicos and spread them out for Ma to finger and look at and price.
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
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