caudality

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He reflects for a few years on the subject of cats; and at last discovers in the cat "the characteristic equine quality of caudality, or a tail"; so that cats

The Crimes of England 1905
Besides, even you have too much regard to the land of Kit North, to entertain any desire to see its most attractive shrine of pilgrimage too suddenly eclipsed; and why should you court such an exposure of popular fickleness, when about to become yourself "the comet of a season," and to go through that brilliant perihelion, in which, reversing the feat of Horace with his _lofty head_, you will sweep away all other stars with a swinge of your luminous _caudality_?

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. Various