uniformly-streaked

Updated: July 18, 2026

Let it once become a fashion for sovereigns and other great men to keep and to caress them, we shall see camels as variegated as cats, which in the woods are all of the uniformly-streaked tabby the males inclining to the brown shade the females to blue among them; but being bred down, become tortoise-shell, and red, and every variety of colour, which domestication alone can bestow.

Hester Lynch Piozzi - Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I