GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

last match results

Found 2 definitions

1.       
   Calico , n.; pl. Calicoes . [So called because first imported from Calicut, in the East Indies: cf. F. calicot.]
   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.]
   1913 Webster
   The importation of printed or stained colicoes appears to have been coeval with the establishment of the East India Company
   . 
   Beck (Draper's Dict. ).
   
   1913 Webster
   Cotton cloth printed with a figured pattern.
   1913 Webster
   ☞ In the United States the term calico is applied only to the printed fabric.
   1913 Webster
   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.
   1913 Webster
   
         
       

2.       
   Calico , 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.]
   1913 Webster