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calico    音標拼音: [k'ælək,o]
n. 印花棉布,白洋布

印花棉布,白洋布

calico
adj 1: made of calico or resembling calico in being patterned;
"calico dresses"; "a calico cat"
2: 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"
[synonym: {motley}, {calico}, {multicolor}, {multi-color},
{multicolour}, {multi-colour}, {multicolored}, {multi-
colored}, {multicoloured}, {multi-coloured}, {painted},
{particolored}, {particoloured}, {piebald}, {pied},
{varicolored}, {varicoloured}]
n 1: coarse cloth with a bright print

Calico \Cal"i*co\, n.; pl. {Calicoes}. [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.
[Eng.]
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The importation of printed or stained colicoes
appears to have been coeval with the establishment
of the East India Company. --Beck
(Draper's
Dict. ).
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2. Cotton cloth printed with a figured pattern.
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Note: In the United States the term calico is applied only to
the printed fabric.
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{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.
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Calico \Cal"i*co\, 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.]
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