Definitions for: Calico

[n] coarse cloth with a bright print
[adj] made of calico or resembling calico in being patterned; "calico dresses"; "a calico cat"

Webster (1913) Definition: 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.]

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 (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.

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.]

See Also: cloth, fabric, material, textile

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