Calicoes
[kælikəuz]
Definition
(pl. ) of Calico
Editor: Zeke
Examples
- In addition, the sale of printed calicoes was forbidden. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The customs officers immediately began to levy the duty on the products of Arkwright’s mills, claiming that the goods were in reality calicoes, although they were made in England. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The bulk of the trade was in leaf tobacco, and domestic cotton-cloths and calicoes. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It is under these regulations only that we can import wrought silks, French cambrics and lawns, calicoes, painted, printed, stained, or dyed, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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