CALICO

motley, calico, multicolor, multi-color, multicolour, multi-colour, multicolored, multi-colored, multicoloured, multi-coloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured

(adjective) 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”

calico

(adjective) made of calico or resembling calico in being patterned; “calico dresses”; “a calico cat”

calico

(noun) coarse cloth with a bright print

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

calico (countable and uncountable, plural calicos or calicoes)

(textiles) A kind of rough cloth made from unbleached and not fully processed cotton, often printed with a bright pattern.

(countable, cat) Ellipsis of calico cat.; a cat with fur of the colors black, white and orange.

Adjective

calico

Having a pattern of red and contrasting areas, resembling the color of calico cloth.

Synonym: tortoiseshell

Anagrams

• accoil, acocil, calcio-

Source: Wiktionary

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Cal"i*co, n.; pl. Calicoes. Etym: [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.] The importation of printed or stained colicoes appears to have been coeval with the establishment of the East India Company. Beck (Draper's Dict. ).

2. Cotton cloth printed with a figured pattern.

Note: In the United States the term calico is applied only to the printed fabric. Calico bass (Zoöl.), 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.

Cal"i*co, a.

Definition: Made of, or having the apperance 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.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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