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Found 1 definition: calico.

Pos: Noun

[WORDNET DICTIONARY]

Noun calico has 1 senses

calico(n = noun.artifact) - coarse cloth with a bright print;
is a kind of cloth, fabric, material, textile
Derived form adjective calico₂

Adjective calico has 2 senses

1. calico(a = adj.pert) - made of calico or resembling calico in being patterned; "calico dresses"; "a calico cat"

2. calico(s = adj.all) motley, multi-color, multi-colored, multi-colour, multi-coloured, multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured - having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly; "a jester dressed in motley"; "the painted desert"; "a particolored dress"; "a piebald horse"; "pied daisies"
Derived form noun calico₁

[CIDE DICTIONARY]

calico, n. [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. [1913 Webster]
"The importation of printed or stained colicoes appears to have been coeval with the establishment of the East India Company" [1913 Webster]

2. 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 (Zoöl.), 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.

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. [1913 Webster]

[OXFORD DICTIONARY]

calico, n. & adj.
--n. (pl. -oes or US -os)
1 a cotton cloth, esp. plain white or unbleached.
2 US a printed cotton fabric.
--adj.
1 made of calico.
2 US multicoloured, piebald.

Etymology:
earlier calicut f. Calicut in India

[ROGET DICTIONARY]

Materials

N materials, material, raw material, stuff, stock, staple, adobe, brown stone, chinking, clapboard, daubing, puncheon, shake, shingle, bricks and mortar, metal, stone, clay, brick crockery, compo, composition, concrete, reinforced concrete, cement, wood, ore, timber, materials, supplies, munition, fuel, grist, household stuff pabulum, ammunition, contingents, relay, reinforcement, reenforcement, baggage, means, calico, cambric, cashmere, raw, wooden, adobe.