4 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
calico
adj : made of calico or resembling calico in being patterned;
"calico dresses"; "a calico cat"
n : a coarse cloth with a bright print
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]:
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