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Definition of Calicos
1. calico [n] - See also: calico
Lexicographical Neighbors of Calicos
Literary usage of Calicos
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Union Pamphlets (1800)
"How happens it then that the printers come forward and fay, that their trade will
be ruined by their being enabled to buy the calicos they are to print ..."
2. Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and by Henry Yule, Arthur Coke Burnell, William Crooke (1903)
"The calicos were book-calicos, calico latinos, broad white calicos, fine starched
calicos, coarse white calicos, ..."
3. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the by Richard Hakluyt (1904)
"... calicos, quilts, carpets and colours, &c. The spices were pepper, cloves, maces,
... The calicos were book-calicos, calico-launes, broad white calicos, ..."
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