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Definition of Calamanco
1. n. A glossy woolen stuff, plain, striped, or checked.
Definition of Calamanco
1. Noun. A glossy woolen fabric with striped or checkered designs. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Calamanco
1. [n -COS or -COES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Calamanco
Literary usage of Calamanco
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1874)
"... kersey, dimity, bombazine, and calamanco. Equally abundant, various, and
serviceable were the articles of household wear of our Revolutionary ancestors. ..."
2. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1812)
"... from year's end to year's end :' but that Lady M. is to appear 'jn a plain
quilted petticoat,' and Macbeth ' in a pair of black calamanco breeches. ..."
3. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"Perhaps for calamanco, a kind of woollen stuff, in Lilly's Midas. Fustian is
mentioned immediately afterwards, applied to language in a similar manner ..."
4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1871)
"Not Salamanca; no, nor Talavera neither, my most noble Marquis [Wellesley], but
plain, honest, black calamanco stuff breeches. This is right; this is as it ..."
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