Crossword clues for calicoes
calicoes
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Calico \Cal"i*co\, n.; pl. Calicoes. [So called because first imported from Calicut, in the East Indies: cf. F. calicot.]
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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.
The importation of printed or stained colicoes appears to have been coeval with the establishment of the East India Company.
--Beck (Draper's Dict. ). -
Cotton cloth printed with a figured pattern.
Note: In the United States the term calico is applied only to the printed fabric.
Calico bass (Zo["o]l.), 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.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of calico English)
WordNet
See calico
n. coarse cloth with a bright print
[also: calicoes (pl)]
adj. made of calico or resembling calico in being patterned; "calico dresses"; "a calico cat"
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" [syn: motley, multicolor, multicolour, multicolored, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured]
[also: calicoes (pl)]
Usage examples of "calicoes".
He stood among the cracker-boxes and flour-barrels, with a background of shelves laden with bright-coloured calicoes, and a line of tin pails hanging overhead, and stated his view of the case with vigour.
Their faces beneath their sun-bonnets were sallow and malarial-looking but shining clean and their freshly ironed calicoes glistened with starch.
I told him we would sell our cargo and purchase China wares, calicoes, raw silks, tea, wrought silks, &c.
There were seven by my count: two calicoes, a black, two gray tabbies, an orange tabby, and a white long-haired Persian the size of a pug.
Gifted Hopkins displayed the native amiability of his temper by fumbling down everything in the shape of ginghams and calicoes they had on the shelves, without a murmur at the taste of his customer, who found it hard to get a pattern sufficiently emphatic for her taste.