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cal⋅i⋅co
[kal-i-koh] 
noun, plural -coes, -cos, adjective –noun
| 1. | a plain-woven cotton cloth printed with a figured pattern, usually on one side. |
| 2. | British. plain white cotton cloth. |
| 3. | an animal having a spotted or particolored coat. |
| 4. | Obsolete. a figured cotton cloth from India. |
–adjective
| 5. | made of calico. |
| 6. | resembling printed calico; spotted or mottled. |
Origin:
1495–1505; short for Calico cloth, var. of Calicut cloth, named after city in India which orig. exported it
1495–1505; short for Calico cloth, var. of Calicut cloth, named after city in India which orig. exported it
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| cal·i·co (kāl'ĭ-kō') n. pl. cal·i·coes or cal·i·cos
[After Calicut.] cal'i·co adj. |
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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.] The importation of printed or stained colicoes appears to have been coeval with the establishment of the East India Company. --Beck (Draper's Dict. ). 2. Cotton cloth printed with a figured pattern. Note: In the United States the term calico is applied only to the printed fabric. Calico bass (Zo["o]l.), 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.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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calico
1540, corruption of Calicut (mod. Kozhikode), seaport on Malabar coast of India, where Europeans first obtained it. In 16c. it was second only to Goa among Indian commercial ports for European trade. Extended to animal colorings suggestive of printed calicos in 1807, originally of horses.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Calico
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calico
all-cotton fabric woven in plain, or tabby, weave and printed with simple designs in one or more colours. Calico originated in Calicut, India, by the 11th century, if not earlier, and in the 17th and 18th centuries calicoes were an important commodity traded between India and Europe.
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