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Definition of Calico
1. Noun. Coarse cloth with a bright print.
2. Adjective. Made of calico or resembling calico in being patterned. "A calico cat"
3. Adjective. Having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly. "Pied daisies"
Similar to: Colored, Colorful, Coloured
Derivative terms: Motley, Motley
Definition of Calico
1. n. Plain white cloth made from cotton, but which receives distinctive names according to quality and use, as, super calicoes, shirting calicoes, unbleached calicoes, etc.
2. a. Made of, or having the appearance of, calico; -- often applied to an animal, as a horse or cat, on whose body are large patches of a color strikingly different from its main color.
Definition of Calico
1. Adjective. Having a pattern of red and contrasting areas, resembling the color of calico cloth. ¹
2. Noun. A kind of rough cloth, often printed with a bright pattern. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Calico
1. a cotton fabric [n -COES or -COS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Calico
Literary usage of Calico
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Great industries of the United States: being an historical summary of by Horace Greeley (1873)
"RESTRICTIONS IN ENGLAND ON THE USE OF calico. — calico-PRINTING IN THK UNITED
... calico-printing is the art of impressing colored patterns or designs on ..."
2. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1872)
"He found that it really is the case that the calico-weaving rooms are full of
dust, one-half of which at least consists of fine particles of china- clay ..."
3. Memoir of Samuel Slater: The Father of American Manufactures by George Savage White (1836)
"calico PRINTING. " Truth is not local; God alike pervades And fills the world of
traffic ... We come now to treat of the important art of calico printing, ..."
4. American Wit and Humor by Joel Chandler Harris (1907)
"A Piece of Red calico Mr. Editor: If the following true experience shall prove
of any advantage to any of your readers, I shall be glad: I was going into ..."
5. Appletons' Cyclopædia of Applied Mechanics: A Dictionary of Mechanical by Appleton, firm, publishers, New York (1878)
"There are eight different styles of calico-printing, each requiring ... The padding
style, in which the whole surface of the calico is imbued with a mordant ..."
6. English Economic History: Select Documents edited by Alfred Edward Bland (1919)
"A petition of several journeymen calico printers, and others working in that
trade, in the counties of Lancaster, Derby, Chester, and Stafford, in England, ..."
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