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calico, plain weave cotton fabric in one or more colors. Calico, named for Calicut, India, where the fabric originated, was mentioned by historians before the Christian era and praised by early travelers for its fine texture and beautiful colors. Block-printed cottons from Calicut imported into England c.1630 were called calicuts. The name calico was soon applied to all Indian cottons having an equal number of warp and weft threads, then to all plain weave cottons. calico 1. a white or unbleached cotton fabric with no printed design 2. Chiefly US a coarse printed cotton fabric 3. made of calico calico [′kal·ə‚kō] (textiles) Any plain-weave or inexpensive figured cotton cloth.
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There was one passenger in the coach,--a small dark-haired person in a glossy buff calico dress. At the end of half an hour he was offering "Two ten fathoms calico and ten ten sticks tobacco" to the boy who first heard "pickaninny dog sing out. We bound it between pasteboards, which I covered with brilliant calico, representing scenes from a circus. |
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