Calico

Calico - Other Definitions

• (n.) Plain white cloth made from cotton, but which receives distinctive names according to quality and use, as, super calicoes, shirting calicoes, unbleached calicoes, etc.
  
  
• (n.) Cotton cloth printed with a figured pattern.
  
  
• (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.
  
  
• (pl. ) of Calico