Calico

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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)]

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  Calico
       
          {C+@}