01 n. Plain white cloth made from cotton, but which receives distinctive names according to quality and use, as, super calicoes, shirting calicoe…
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Calicoes ((#))
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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. ).
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Cotton cloth printed with a figured pattern.
Phrases & compounds
Calico bass —
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.