Calico \Cal"i*co\, 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. [Colloq. U. S.]
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Calico \Cal"i*co\, n.; pl. Calicoes. [So called because first
imported from Calicut, in the East Indies: cf. F. calicot.]
1. Plain white cloth made from cotton, but which receives
distinctive names according to quality and use, as, super
calicoes, shirting calicoes, unbleached calicoes, etc.
[Eng.]
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The importation of printed or stained colicoes
appears to have been coeval with the establishment
of the East India Company. --Beck
(Draper's
Dict. ).
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2. Cotton cloth printed with a figured pattern.
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Note: In the United States the term calico is applied only to
the printed fabric.
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Calico bass (Zool.), an edible, fresh-water fish ({Pomoxys
sparaides) of the rivers and lake of the Western United
States (esp. of the Misissippi valley.), allied to the
sunfishes, and so called from its variegated colors; --
called also calicoback, grass bass, strawberry bass,
barfish, and bitterhead.
Calico printing, the art or process of impressing the
figured patterns on calico.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
calico
adj 1: made of calico or resembling calico in being patterned;
"calico dresses"; "a calico cat"
2: having sections or patches colored differently and usually
brightly; "a jester dressed in motley"; "the painted
desert"; "a particolored dress"; "a piebald horse"; "pied
daisies" [syn: motley, multicolor, multicolour, multicolored,
multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured,
piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured]
n : coarse cloth with a bright print
[also: calicoes (pl)]
WordNet (r) 2.0
Calico
C+@
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
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