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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]: Calico {C+@}
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