Torti Or Calico?

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Hello, all! I have a one-year-old kitty named Autumn that I (and the adoption agency I got her through) describe as a torti. She is almost entirely deep brown with tan... except for a teensy (about half a centimeter square) patch of white fur on her chest. Does this make her technically a calico?
 
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I'd say she's definitely a tortie because the orange and black are intermixed. I have a calico, and her colors are much patchier like so:
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Such a cutie :3 Yeah, I know calico tend to be patched, but I didn't know if that teeeensy bit of white made her 'technically' tri-color and thus a calico. Thanks!
 

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Yes, I agree she’s definitely a tortie! That little white patch is called a locket, and we see it in otherwise solid-colored cats sometimes too. She’s very pretty!
 
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Thanks! She knows it, too ^_^
 
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