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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.
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Origin:
1495–1505; short for Calico cloth, variant of Calicut cloth, named after city in India which orig. exported it
1495–1505; short for Calico cloth, variant of Calicut cloth, named after city in India which orig. exported it
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Example Sentences
- Annie was wearing a long green calico dress and white apron.
- High above the ground, a calico cat balances on a branch.
- Don't bay scallops be confused with calico scallops, which are often labeled bays.
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Word Origin & History
calico
1530s, kalyko, corruption of Calicut (modern 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.
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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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