Just thought of another "term"
Ritzy was parked on the back of a sofa the other morning...and it caught me how she was flattened out and somewhat "at one" with the piece of furniture....and thought of this term
"Doily Cat" A variaiont of "Catloaf" or "Parade Float", however cat drapes is body over the back of a chair or sofa and "flattens out' and assumes the shape of the specific piece of furniture.
(HISTORICAL REFERENCE: for those of you too young to know what a "doily" is, there was a time when women spent an inordinate amount of time creating little circles of lace embroidery or tatting and draping them over the backs and arms of chairs.....i'm still not sure why - might have been an early kind of "arm and head coaster" to keep dirt and oil off the chair---realize too, that "greasy kids stuff" was a popular hair treatment of the day....preceeded the 50's craze of covering your best chairs in plastic sheeting....but I digress)
Looking back on it, I was a very weird little kid...
Oh my, for some reason, TuxLuvr, your words trigger such a memory for me...
Mom crochetted many beautiful doilies but my personal favorite was a very large one made with black thread interwoven with metallic gold. It was lovely. I'd double it up in a half circle, and drape it across my head in what to me was a very beautiful and exotic black wig. Go trapsing through the house imagining myself as 'the queen of the Nile' and 'walking like an Egyptian' YEARS before that song ever came out.
I was a weird little kid... :rolleyes: :D