calico

[US]/'kælɪkəʊ/
[UK]/'kælɪko/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. printed cotton fabric, white cotton cloth
Word Forms
Pluralcalicos

Phrases & Collocations

calico cat

calico pattern

calico printing

Example Sentences

Her recent graduation from a skinny piccaninny with brief skirts and stiffly wrapped braids into the dignity of a long calico dress and starched white turban was an intoxicating affair.

Real-world Examples

Look at the threads in the calico.

Source: British Students' Science Reader

Turkey red is perfectly plain in calicoes, she answered.

Source: VOA Special October 2019 Collection

Stripes are worn more than anything else in calicoes, said she.

Source: VOA Special October 2019 Collection

Now get a small bit of calico or muslin, and begin to fray out the edge.

Source: British Students' Science Reader

Their faces beneath their sun-bonnets were sallow and malarial-looking but shining clean and their freshly ironed calicoes glistened with starch.

Source: Gone with the Wind

I went down in the elevator, and out on the street. I was completely sick of red calico.

Source: VOA Special October 2019 Collection

Dunn, show this man red calicoes. Mr. Dunn took my sample and looked at it.

Source: VOA Special October 2019 Collection

Her faded calico dress was open to the waist and her large bronze breast exposed.

Source: Gone with the Wind

She handed a new and absolutely plain garment, of coarse and unbleached calico.

Source: Jude the Obscure (Part Two)

Have you any red calico like this? I asked the saleswoman.

Source: VOA Special October 2019 Collection

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