calico

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly

   They love calico cats.

2. 2
   adj

   made of calico or resembling calico in being patterned

   Calico dresses come and go in popularity.

3. 3
   noun

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

   This helix was covered with calico, and then a second wire applied in the same manner.

4. 4
   noun

   Ellipsis of calico cat.

   One of them, a calico whose half-grown kittens he just fed, slow-blinks at him, an affectionate gesture.

From Calicut, from where the cloth was originally exported, from Malayalam കോഴിക്കോട് (kōḻikkōṭŭ, “Kozhikode”), from കോഴി (kōḻi, “palace”) + കോട് (kōṭŭ, “fortified palace”).

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