calico
noun
a plain-woven cotton cloth printed with a figured pattern, usually on one side.
calicoes
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pluralof calico.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
The calicoes of that day were both dear and homely; and it required money to enable a woman to appear in a dress that would be thought attractive to the least practised eye.
From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper
They met two Mindanao vessels laden with silks and calicoes; and near Manila they took some Spanish vessels, one of which had a cargo of rice.
From History of the Buccaneers of America by James Burney
