Calimanco Cat

Calimanco Cat

Calimanco Cat. In his Dictionary of Provincialisms 1839.

However, I find Holloway, in his "Dictionary of Provincialisms" (1839), gives the following:

"Calimanco Cat, s. (calimanco, a glossy stuff), a tortoiseshell cat, Norfolk."

Salmon, in "The Compleat English Physician," 1693, p. 326, writing of the cat, says: "It is a neat and cleanly creature, often licking itself to keep it fair and clean, and washing its face with its fore feet; the best are such as of a fair and large kind and of an exquisite tabby color called Cyprus cats."