"Calicoes" is a word in ENGLISH

A style of calico printing, in which white or bright spots are produced upon cloth previously dyed of a uniform …

Same as Calico bass.

Plain white cloth made from cotton, but which receives distinctive names according to quality and use, as, super calicoes, shirting …

Made of, or having the appearance of, calico; -- often applied to an animal, as a horse or cat, on …

Cotton cloth printed with a figured pattern.

An hemipterous insect (Murgantia histrionica) which injures the cabbage and other garden plants; -- called also calico bug and harlequin …

The calico bass.

A comparatively rare element occurring most abundantly in the mineral chromite. Atomic weight 52.5. Symbol Cr. When isolated it is …

One of a series of artificial blue or red dyes obtained from quinoline and lepidine and used in calico printing.

dansuy n k. o. boys shirt similar to the T-shirt in form, but with an opening partway down the front, …

Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency; as, the doctor of a …

A coarse linen cloth made in the north of England and in Scotland, now nearly replaced by calico.

A term applied to fabrics for the gowns of women and girls; -- most commonly to fabrics of mixed materials, …

To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung; -- done to remove the …

A style of printing calico, paper hangings, etc., in which the colors are in bands and graduated into each other.

The ordinary outer dress of a woman; as, a calico or silk gown.

A genus of North American shrubs with poisonous evergreen foliage and corymbs of showy flowers. Called also mountain laurel, ivy …

A preparation of casein from milk, used in printing calico.

The calico bass.

A kind of machine blanket or wrapping material used by calico printers.