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😃🇺🇸🐱🐈🐯🐅🦁🐆☀️❗️Post any/all things kitty! (Original Post) Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2019 OP
A kitty story in four acts 😺 lunasun Oct 2019 #1
OK... Glorfindel Oct 2019 #2
In MY day, we called 'em grimalkins. sl8 Oct 2019 #3
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sl8

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3. In MY day, we called 'em grimalkins.
Tue Oct 29, 2019, 11:28 AM
Oct 2019
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimalkin

Grimalkin

A grimalkin (also called a greymalkin) is an archaic term for a cat.[1] The term stems from "grey" (the colour) plus "malkin", an archaic term with several meanings (a low class woman, a weakling, a mop, or a name) derived from a hypocoristic form of the female name Maud.[2] Scottish legend makes reference to the grimalkin as a faery cat that dwells in the highlands.

Nostradamus, the French prophet and astrologer, 1503–1566, had a cat named Grimalkin.[3]

Beware the Cat was published in 1570 by William Baldwin. The novel is a story of talking cats, and part of it relates the story of the Grimalkin's death. According to its editors, the story, and thus the name, originates with Baldwin in terms of being the earliest example known in print. It is also spelled Grimmalkin or Grimolochin.[4]

A cat named Grimalkin in William Shakespeare's 1606 play Macbeth helped the three witches look into Macbeth's future.[5]

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