Calico
['kælɪkəʊ] or ['kælɪko]
解释:
(noun.) coarse cloth with a bright print.
(adj.) made of calico or resembling calico in being patterned; 'calico dresses'; 'a calico cat' .
杰里米整理--From WordNet
解释:
(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.
(n.) Cotton cloth printed with a figured pattern.
(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.
校对:利昂
同义词及近义词:
n. [1]. [Eng.] Cotton cloth.[2]. [U.S.] Print, printed cotton cloth.
整理:温弗雷德
解释:
n. a cotton cloth first brought from Calicut in India: plain white unprinted cotton cloth bleached or unbleached: coarse printed cotton cloth.—adj. made of calico: spotted—n. Cal′ico-print′er one employed in printing calicoes.
校对:伊薇特
例句:
- Tiggin and Welps were in the printed calico and waistcoat piece line, gentlemen, so my uncle knew all the materials at once. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- He was habited in a coarse, striped waistcoat, with black calico sleeves, and blue glass buttons; drab breeches and leggings. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- There is all the new calico, that was bought last week, not touched yet. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- About this time, both in England and America, machines had been devised for sewing lengths of calico and other cloths together, previous to bleaching, dyeing or printing. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Care-takers in calico lounged on the door-steps of the wealthy, and the Common looked like a pleasure-ground on the morrow of a Masonic picnic. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- Calico printers are using half a pound of the acid to every 100 pounds of dressing starch, in order to entirely preclude the disagreeable odor arising after awhile from dry goods in store. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- I reckon I know who'd ha' been sorry for to see our measter sitting so like a piece o' grey calico! 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- Each put on a coarse straw bonnet, with strings of coloured calico, and a cloak of grey frieze. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
编辑:普鲁登斯