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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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Calicoback \Cal"i*co*back`\, n. (Zool.)
(a) The calico bass.
(b) An hemipterous insect ({Murgantia histrionica}) which
injures the cabbage and other garden plants; -- called
also {calico bug} and {harlequin cabbage bug}.
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