maco

American  

[mah-koh] / ˈmɑ koʊ /

noun

1. an Egyptian cotton, used especially in the manufacture of hosiery and undergarments.

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Etymology

Origin of maco

After Mako Bey, 19th-century Egyptian officer

Example Sentences

He takes mactus as the participle of a lost verb maco or mago, to make great, increase, equivalent to augeo, which is also a word of semi-religious meaning, as Augustus knew.

From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by Fowler, W. Warde