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
It is under these regulations only that we can import wrought silks, French cambrics and lawns, calicoes, painted, printed, stained, or dyed, &c.
From An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Germain Garnier
Yellow calicoes should be washed in soap suds and not rinsed.
