PARA-318-Calico-Cat

Caretaker Status: Unknown

Affiliated companion(s): COM-74-318-1

Level 3 - concrete
Word: Cat (Calico)

Origin:
1530s, kalyko cloth, "white cotton cloth," from an alternative form of Calicut (modern Kozhikode), name of the seaport on the Malabar coast of India where Europeans first obtained it. In U.S. use from c. 1800, "printed cotton cloth coarser than muslin;" extended to animal colorings suggestive of printed calicos in 1807, originally of horses, of cats from 1882.

Old English catt, catte, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kat and German Katze; reinforced in Middle English by forms from late Latin cattus .

Definition:
A cat characterized by the pattern of its coat, most often a black, orange, and white pattern.

Magic Status: 2 - Novice
Tier 1 - Can purr like a cat.
Tier 2 - Able to communicate with cats, especially calico cats.

Wisdom Status: 1 - Preschooler
Younger Days