Calico
['kælɪkəʊ] or ['kælɪko]
Definition
(noun.) coarse cloth with a bright print.
(adj.) made of calico or resembling calico in being patterned; 'calico dresses'; 'a calico cat' .
Edited by Jeremy--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Checked by Leon
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. [Eng.] Cotton cloth.[2]. [U.S.] Print, printed cotton cloth.
Typist: Winfred
Definition
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.
Typist: Yvette
Examples
- Tiggin and Welps were in the printed calico and waistcoat piece line, gentlemen, so my uncle knew all the materials at once. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He was habited in a coarse, striped waistcoat, with black calico sleeves, and blue glass buttons; drab breeches and leggings. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- There is all the new calico, that was bought last week, not touched yet. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- 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. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- 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. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- 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. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- I reckon I know who'd ha' been sorry for to see our measter sitting so like a piece o' grey calico! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Each put on a coarse straw bonnet, with strings of coloured calico, and a cloak of grey frieze. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
Checker: Prudence