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cal·i·co

(kăl′ĭ-kō′)

n. pl. cal·i·coes or cal·i·cos

a. A tightly woven cotton cloth having a repeating, often floral design.

b. Chiefly British A plain white cotton cloth, heavier than muslin.

2. An animal, such as a cat, having a coat of white fur with distinct patches of different colors, usually reddish-orange and black.

[After Calicut.]

cal′i·co adj.

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calico

(ˈkælɪˌkəʊ)

n, pl -coes or -cos

1. (Textiles) a white or unbleached cotton fabric with no printed design

2. (Textiles) chiefly US a coarse printed cotton fabric

3. (Textiles) (modifier) made of calico

[C16: based on Calicut, town in India]

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cal•i•co

(ˈkæl ɪˌkoʊ)

n., pl. -coes, -cos,
adj. n.

1. a plain-woven cotton cloth printed with a figured pattern, usu. on one side.

2. Brit. plain white cotton cloth.

3. an animal having a spotted or particolored coat.

adj.

4. made of calico.

5. mottled or variegated in color.

6. (of a domestic cat) having a variegated white, black, red, and cream coat.

[1495–1505; short for Calico cloth]

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Noun	1.	calico - coarse cloth with a bright print cloth, fabric, textile, material - artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers; "the fabric in the curtains was light and semitransparent"; "woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC"; "she measured off enough material for a dress"
Adj.	1.	calico - made of calico or resembling calico in being patterned; "calico dresses"; "a calico cat"
	2.	calico - 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" multicolor, multi-color, multicolored, multi-colored, multicolour, multi-colour, multicoloured, multi-coloured, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured, motley, painted coloured, colorful - having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination; "colored crepe paper"; "the film was in color"; "amber-colored heads of grain"

Translations

коленкор коленкоровый

calico

[ˈkælɪkəʊ]

A. N (calicoes or calicos (pl)) → calicó m, percal m

B. ADJ [jacket, shirt etc] → de percal

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calico

[ˈkælɪkəʊ] n

(British) → calicot m

(US) → indienne f

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calico

n → Kattun m

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

calico

[ˈkælɪˌkəʊ] n → (tela di) cotone m grezzo (Am) → cotonina stampata

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Should we for this purpose be induced to retrace our steps, we should run no small chance of encountering the natives, who in that case, if they did nothing worse to us, would be certain to convey us back to the ship for the sake of the reward in calico and trinkets, which we had no doubt our skipper would hold out to them as an inducement to our capture.

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There was one passenger in the coach,--a small dark-haired person in a glossy buff calico dress.

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No wonder Dorothy had refrained from bringing with her her old calico and gingham dresses!

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You pay me plenty tobacco, plenty powder, plenty calico."

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'm that fella boy five fathom calico, two ten sticks tobacco."

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We bound it between pasteboards, which I covered with brilliant calico, representing scenes from a circus.

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Moncharmin and Richard were the shipwrecked mariners amid this motionless turmoil of a calico sea.

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Having provided everything necessary for our journey, such as Arabian habits, and red caps, calicoes, and other trifles to make presents of to the inhabitants, and taking leave of our friends, as men going to a speedy death, for we were not insensible of the dangers we were likely to encounter, amongst horrid deserts, impassable mountains, and barbarous nations, we left Goa on the 26th day of January in the year 1624, in a Portuguese galliot that was ordered to set us ashore at Pate, where we landed without any disaster in eleven days, together with a young Abyssin, whom we made use of as our interpreter.