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😃🇺🇸🐱🐈🐯🐅🦁🐆☀️❗️Post any/all things kitty! (Original Post)
Floyd R. Turbo
Oct 2019
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lunasun
(21,646 posts)1. A kitty story in four acts 😺
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Glorfindel
(9,726 posts)2. OK...
sl8
(13,720 posts)3. In MY day, we called 'em grimalkins.
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, 15031566, 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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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, 15031566, 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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IcyPeas
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Cartoonist
(7,314 posts)5. LP cover