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One of them was very demure and mindful - think soft pastels, pussy bow blouses and pleats - as demonstrated by Chanel and Balenciaga.

From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2024

“As women have found their voice politically, they have begun to express themselves sartorially,” Friedman wrote in 2017, “be it through white pantsuits, so-called pussy hats or the modest fashion movement.”

From Slate ● Dec. 14, 2024

And forced bulbs fill the toughest slot in the calendar, when the garden may not offer much more than a pussy willow branch.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 20, 2023

Since the anniversary fell on Palm Sunday, they also carried pussy willows and other tree branches, which is a Roman Catholic tradition on the Sunday before Easter.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 2, 2023

A large vase of cut pussy willow stalks had been tipped over and shattered, with shards of broken crockery and stray catkins everywhere.

From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood

The pleasantest room in the house was set apart for Beth, and in it was gathered everything that she most loved,—flowers, pictures, her piano, the little work-table, and the beloved pussies.

From Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

Then how the pussy cats did mew, What else, poor pussies, could they do?

From Slovenly Betsy by Heinrich Hoffmann

At nearly all the shows—at all events at all the great shows—Mr Sillet, the well-known naturalist of Southampton, has the arrangement of the pens or cages for the pussies.

From The Domestic Cat by Gordon Stables

The robins and the bluebirds came here about the middle of February, and if it does not get colder, willow "pussies" will be out in a few days.

From Harper's Young People, March 23, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

One of the fat pussies jumped on her lap and purred.

From The Tin Soldier by Temple Bailey