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Thread #94598 Message #4098341
Posted By: Lighter
19-Mar-21 - 10:34 AM
Thread Name: Origins: The Foggy Foggy Dew (bachelor)
Subject: RE: Origins: The Foggy Foggy Dew (bachelor)
From Harrison William Weir's "Our Cats and All About Them" (1889):
"I was rather unprepared to learn that in Norfolk and Suffolk [a tabby] is called a Cyprus cat. 'Why Cyprus cat?' quoth I. 'I do not know,' said my informant."
Weir soon discovered that "Cyprus" was the a kind of cloth "made of silk and hair, showing wavy lines in it, and coming from Cyprus."