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
At the time of this story's publication, both are still at the shelter waiting to be adopted . . . although the calico is currently advertised as bonded with a different gray tabby.
From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2024
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
They worked in collaboration with Ivorian fashion label Super Yaya to artfully drape strips of white calico cotton fabric across the entrance.
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2024
She was no more than twelve or thirteen, dressed in rough calico with ill-fitting boots.
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
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
The Hansons' cat is specifically a torn, and cat lovers soon pointed out that all calicoes are female.
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
They met two Mindanao vessels laden with silks and calicoes; and near Manila they took some Spanish vessels, one of which had a cargo of rice.
From History of the Buccaneers of America by James Burney
Their clothes consist of gaily-painted deer-hide, ornamented with beads, and the gayest calicoes, which they obtain from the Government trading posts by bartering peltry for them.
From The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier 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
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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