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The cat was a calico named CC.
I have one cat that is a calico, and I have one that has long black and white hair.
Generally, cloned animals look identical, but calicos are a strange exception.

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Examples from literature

I want to buy a yard of calico, said Bill. 
Nancy had admired that pink calico. 
She robbed the windows of their lawn and muslin curtains, replacing them with gaudy calico from the trade-store, and made herself several gowns. 
There was two old dirty calico dresses, and a sun-bonnet, and some women's underclothes hanging against the wall, and some men's clothing, too. 
When, at a given point, all the maid-servants rise, whirl round in their calico gowns and turn their demure backs to me as they kneel in a row, I know not whether to laugh or cry. 

calico | American Dictionary

calico
noun[ U ]
us/ˈkæl·ɪˌkoʊ/
a cotton cloth with a printed pattern

Examples of calico

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A new vocabulary of chintzes and calicoes, taffetas, muslins, ginghams and cashmeres entered everyday use.
At times, the dualism is effective, as with the discussion of gentility and its links with the consumption of calicoes and silks.
But the effects of scientific advancement will not be branded by the cheapening of silks, calicos and hardwares.
The allegations were framed within a particularly gendered context, where luxury was equated with the feminine and calicos with a corruption of the social fabric.
Between 1719 and 1720, the campaign against calico reached its peak.
For days at a time, women who wore calico gowns did so at their peril.
Long after the riots ended and the ban was in place, women quietly took out their calicos, wearing them when they could, looking for equivalent substitutes as these became available.
In this context, as the legal and political campaign against calico took to the streets, women became the particular targets of polemical criticisms and physical attacks.
Ehrlich conveniently compared the behavior of blood serum in the organism with the action of serum when used as a thickening agent in calico printing.
In subsequent chapters, each is matched with the supply and consumption of key goods: respectively, silk and calicoes; spices and sugar; tea, coffee and sugar; coffee and tobacco; and tea.
Sturdy wools fell out of favour, to the distress of moralists, who accused the consumers of calico of economic treason.
Pamphleteers opposed their supposed penchant for calico which was assumed to have had a deleterious effect on certain branches of the textile industry, particularly the sale of woollens.
Not one of them was allowed to marry before he had carried a load of ivory to the coast, and brought back one of calico or brass wire.
Those responsible came back and said that they would give it out in flannel and calico.
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