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The Hansons' cat is specifically a torn, and cat lovers soon pointed out that all calicoes are female.

From Time Magazine Archive

By the Victorian era, odd batches of brocade, chintzes and calicoes were patched into crazy quilts, more a tour de force in stitchery than in pattern.

From Time Magazine Archive

If she had been home, she might have spent the dark afternoons spinning or sewing, but the mistress bought her woolens and calicoes at the village stores.

From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson

All fir-balsam trees and little rustic benches and pink calicoes and Grand Army suits and high cheek-bones and low insteps and—lots of noise?

From The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business by Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell

What piles of silks and shawls, cottons and calicoes!

From The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion by Turnbull, Robert