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
One contributor wrote: "We are siblings in the first and third grades of elementary school. We donated with our pocket money. Use it for research on calico cats."
From BBC ● May 15, 2025
They also found that skin from calico cats had more Arghap36 RNA in orange regions than in brown or black regions.
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 held up a blue calico and a green paisley.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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 returns that are injurious to our manufactures, or growth of our own country, are printed calicoes, chintz, wrought silks, stuffs, of herbs and barks, block-tin, sugar, cotton, arrack, copper, and indigo.
From A New Voyage Round the World by a Course Never Sailed Before by Daniel Defoe
The establishments at Alexandria, Bonhill, Jamestown, Renton and other towns for all the processes connected with the bleaching, dyeing and printing of cottons, calicoes and other cloths, besides yarns, are conducted on the largest scale.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various
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
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
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
Kansas City grew big and rich on the nation's appetite for meat and bread and for the West's desires for the East's calicos and gadgets.
From Time Magazine Archive
Discarded shreds of unidentifiable stuffs were sewed patch on patch, including some black beaded velvets and bright calicos.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
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