Shotgun Bride Cats In Hats

by Michele Avanti

Title

Shotgun Bride Cats In Hats

Artist

Michele Avanti

Medium

Photograph - Mixed Media

Description

Shotgun Bride by Michele Avanti, from Cats In Hats series, "Shotgun Bride."
In the latest silk and organza butterfly couture wedding veil, an innocent young kitty is about to be married off. She is not sure what to expect, she is frightened and reticent, not sure if saying, "I do." is the right thing...but then does she really have a choice?

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Common Mackerel tabby, with the striped pattern
A tabby, also known as grey tiger, is any domestic cat that has a coat featuring distinctive stripes, dots, lines or swirling patterns, usually together with a mark resembling an M on its forehead. Tabbies are sometimes erroneously assumed to be a cat breed.[1] In fact, the tabby pattern is found in many breeds, as well as among the general mixed-breed population. The tabby pattern is a naturally occurring feature that may be related to the coloration of the domestic cat's direct ancestor, the African Wildcat, which (along with the European Wildcat and Asiatic Wildcat) has a similar coloration.

The English term "tabby" comes from a translation of the French for "striped silk taffeta", which derives from the French "tabis", meaning "a rich watered silk (originally striped)", in turn from Middle French "atabis" (14th century), from the Arabic term "attabiya", from "Attabiy", a neighborhood of Baghdad where such cloth was first made, named for Prince 'Attab of the Umayyad Caliphate, as compared to the Spanish term "ataviar", meaning "to decorate or to dress or wear" (often implying very elegant and/or expensive clothing).[2] The term tabby cat, "one with a striped coat", is attested from the 1690s; the shortened form tabby was first attested in 1774. The idea of "female cat" (1826) may be influenced by the feminine proper name Tabby, a pet form of Tabitha, which was used in the late 18th century as slang for a "difficult old woman"

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