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单词 calico
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calicon.

/ˈkalɪkəʊ/
Forms: α. 1500s ( Calȝecot), callicutt, 1500s–1600s calecut, 1500s–1700s callicut, calicut, 1500s-1600s calicute, 1600s–1700s callicot. β. 1500s kalyko, calyco, calocowe, ( callaga, callaca), 1500s–1700s callico(e, 1600s–1700s calicoe, 1600s– calico.
Etymology: In 16–17th cent. also calicut , from the name of the Indian city (sense 1), called in Malayalam Kōlịkōdụ, in Arabic Qaliqūt, medieval Latin (Conti) Collicuthia, Portuguese Qualecut (V. de Gama), Calecut (Camoens). It is not clear how the form calico, occurring in 1540 as kalyko, arose; it may have been merely an English corruption; the French calicot has been suggested as the intermediate form, but the age of this is uncertain.
1. The name of a city on the coast of Malabar; in the 16th cent. the chief port, next to Goa, of intercourse between India and Europe; used attributively in Calicut-cloth, Calico-cloth: see 2.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > cotton > [noun] > calico
Calico-cloth1540
Calicut-cloth1540
calico1652
twine cloth1815
nettle-cloth1858
α.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 260 It micht haue cuming in schortar quhyll Fra Calȝecot and the New Fund Yle.]
1541 Lett. Credence of T. Bellenden fr. Jas. V to Hen. VIII July IX peces of Callicutt claith pertenyng to ane William Blaky in Leith.
1589 A. Jenkinson in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 82 Of silke and linnen wouen together, resembling something Callicut cloth.
1599 R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) II. Ep. Ded. sig. *4 Lapped vp almost an hundred fold in fine calicut-cloth.
β. 1540 in G. J. Piccope Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1860) II. 151 A surplyse and an elne kalyko cloth.a1549 A. Borde Fyrst Bk. Introd. Knowl. (1870) 142 The newe founde land named Calyco.] 1549 Will of Lewes ap Rhes (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/32) f. 283v Calocowe clothe.1606 E. Scott Exact Disc. East Indians sig. N They [sc. the Javanese] weare a kinde of Callico cloth.
2. Hence:
a. originally. A general name for cotton cloth of all kinds imported from the East (see quot. 1753 at sense 2b); ‘an Indian stuff made of cotton, sometimes stained with gay and beautiful colours’ (Johnson); subsequently, also, various cotton fabrics of European manufacture (sometimes also with linen warp).
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > cotton > [noun] > calico
Calico-cloth1540
Calicut-cloth1540
calico1652
twine cloth1815
nettle-cloth1858
1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie iii. sig. Ttt6v A smock of Calicut, a kind of linnen cloth here made, and from hence so called.
1677 J. Phillips tr. J.-B. Tavernier Persian Trav. ii. iii. 61 in tr. J.-B. Tavernier Six Voy. (1678) Black and blew Calicuts, which the Arabians make use of without ever whitening them.
1678 J. Phillips tr. J.-B. Tavernier Indian Trav. ii. x. 126 in tr. J.-B. Tavernier Six Voy. Chites or Painted Calicuts, which they call Calmendar, that is to say, done with a Pencil, are made in the Kingdom of Golconda.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 349/1 Dowlas, Scotch Cloth, Callicot.
1758 J. Ellis in Philos. Trans. 1757 (Royal Soc.) 50 453 Callicuts are painted with the juice of this shrub.
1789 W. Coxe Trav. Switzerland I. 30 Their manufactures are coarse callicots and muslins.
b. Now, in England, applied chiefly to plain white unprinted cotton cloth, bleached or unbleached (called in Scotland and U.S. cotton).
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1578 Inventory in Drapers' Dict. 42 iiij yards of Callaga, 6s. 4d. xij yards of Callaca, 12s.
1590 E. Webbe Rare & Wonderfull Things (new ed.) sig. Dv Fine lawne or callico thrust down my throat.
1616 Trav. Eng. Pilg. in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) III. 326 A camel, laden with callicoes.
1665 G. Havers tr. P. della Valle Trav. E. India 31 A very great Trade of fine Cotton Cloth or Callico.
1666 S. Pepys Diary 24 Sept. (1972) VII. 295 Flags which I had bought for the Navy, of calico.
1714 tr. French Bk. of Rates 230 The Arrest..forbidding the Sale or Consumption of painted Callicoes from the East-Indies, or such as are printed or painted at Home.
1719 R. Steele Spinster 347 A tawdry, pie-spotted, flabby, ragged, low-priced thing, called Callicoe..made..by a parcel of Heathens and Pagans, that worship the Devil, and work for a half penny a day.
1741 S. Johnson Drake in Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 42 Dressed in white Cotton or Calicoe.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Callicoes are of divers kinds, plain, printed, painted, stain'd, dyed, chints, muslins, and the like.
1774 Act 14 Geo. III iii Instead of the Word Callico, which stands for foreign Callicoes, each piece may be marked with the words British Manufacture.
1860 J. W. Warter Sea-board & Down II. 22 The wind sounded like the tearing of calico.
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) I. 579 It was easy for needy adventurers to buy printed calicoes.
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) II. 565 Hung with black lustreless calico.
c. in U.S. to printed cotton cloth, coarser than muslin.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > cotton > [noun] > coloured, patterned, or printed > specific
pintadoa1575
Salempore1598
chintz1614
nankeenc1700
caffa1701
jamwar1721
nankinett1794
purdah1813
zephyr1819
nankeening1830
calico1841
permanent1854
galatea1874
Madras gingham1880
Turkey red1880
Madras1897
shadow cretonne1932
shadow stripe1932
1841 R. W. Emerson Prudence in Ess. 1st Ser. (London ed.) 237 Calicoes [cannot] go out of fashion..in the few swift moments..the Yankee suffers..them to remain in his possession.
1863 Life in South II. 293 Cotton-prints..called ‘calicoes’ in America, for dresses.
1872 B. Harte Prose & P. I. 40 The furniture was extemporized from packing cases..and covered with gay calico.
3. simple attrib. (or adj.)
a. Of calico (cf. sense 1). calico ball, a ball where the ladies wear only cotton dresses.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > cotton > [adjective] > other
fustian1537
calico1612
Surat1643
corduroy1789
velveteen1824
blue jean1826
dungaree1836
blue jeans1871
percale1880
Aertex1896
1612 Rates Scotl. 294 Calico copboord claiths, the piece..xls.
1641 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 24 The men, wearing a large calico mantle yellow coloured.
1682 N. Grew Anat. Plants iv. iii. vii. 192 Membranes, in which the Seeds..lie swadled, as in so many fine Calico Clouts.
1796 Accurate & Impartial Narr. Campaigns 1793–4 (ed. 3) I. ii. ii. 101 Callicoe sheets keep us decently warm.
1855 N.-Y. Daily Times 18 Jan. 3/1 The dresses from Mrs Coman's Calico Ball had not yesterday arrived at the House of Industry.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xviii. 141 Flaunting in a calico shirt and a pair of silk stockings from Moorshedabad.
1881 E. C. G. Murray Sidelights on Eng. Society I. 42 Of late years it has become the fashion to give calico-balls for the encouragement of native industry.
1952 Music Educators Jrnl. 38 40/1 A ‘calico ball,’ a gay event at which the neighborhood merrymakers whiled away the hours between twilight and dawn.
2000 Southland (N.Z.) Times (Nexis) 17 July 3 For the past two years the group has held a calico ball with period costumes.
b. Coloured in a way suggestive of printed calico; variegated, piebald. Chiefly of horses. Also as n., a calico horse. U.S.
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the world > matter > colour > variegation > [adjective]
fawa700
medleyc1350
freckledc1380
motleyc1380
pied1382
specked1382
vary1382
partyc1385
parted1393
peckleda1400
polymitec1425
sere-colouredc1425
vairc1425
discoloured?1440
motleyed1447
varying1488
sheld1507
fleckered1508
piet1508
mellay1515
particoloured1530
pickled1552
varied1578
mingled1580
partly coloured1582
chequered1592
medley-coloured1593
mingle-coloured1593
piebald1594
feathered1610
changeable1612
particolour1612
enamelled1613
variousa1618
pie-coloured1619
jaspered1620
gangean1623
versicolour1628
patchwork1634
damasked1648
variously-coloureda1660
variegateda1661
agated1665
varicoloured1665
damaska1674
various-coloureda1711
pieted1721
versicoloured1721
diversicoloured1756
mosaic1776
harlequin1779
spanged1788
calico1807
piety1811
varied-coloured1811
discolorate1826
heterochromous1842
jaspé1851
discolor1859
discolorous1860
jasperoid1876
damascened1879
heterochromatic1895
variotinted1903
batik1914
varihued1921
rumbled1930
damasky1931
pepper-and-salt1940
partihued1959
1807 Salmagundi 24 Nov. 372 Bantering nature fairly out of countenance—representing her tricked out in all the tawdry finery of copper skies, purple rivers, calico rocks, red grass, [etc.].
1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. II. vii. iii. 192 Behold..Van Corlear, mounted on a..calico mare.
1835 J. Martin Gazetteer Virginia 27 The carved or calico rock of Kanawha.
a1861 T. Winthrop Canoe & Saddle (1883) x. 144 A hundred horses, roans, calicos..blacks and whites.
1878 B. F. Taylor Between Gates 207 There would be scant room for the calico horses to canter.
1901 Munsey's Mag. 24 508/2 Jim McCoy was riding a ‘calico’ mare—a fractious beast covered with white and brown blotches of hair.
1954 J. Potts Go, Lovely Rose (1955) ix. 60 Havelka's calico cat..was taking a fastidious stroll.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
calico-glazer n.
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1723 London Gaz. No. 6196/7 Mathew Bacon..Callico-Glazer.
1809 A. Stewart in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Sir W. Scott (1839) III. 180 Breaking into the workshop of Peter More, calico-glazer, Edinburgh.
calico-making n.
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1859 S. Smiles Self-help 36 Robert Peel..began the domestic trade of calico-making.
calico-smoother n.
calico-trade n.
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1762 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 6/1 We have obstructed them in the callico trade.
calico-weaving n.
C2.
calico-back n. U.S. (a) the turnstone (Arenaria interpres); (b) the harlequin cabbage-beetle.
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1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 246 Strepsilas... Turnstone. Brant Bird. Calico-back.
1877 C. Hallock Sportsman's Gazetteer 164 [The name] Calico-back [has reference] to the curiously variegated plumage of the upper parts.
1895 J. H. Comstock & A. B. Comstock Man. Study Insects (1923) 145 The Harlequin Cabbage-bug or Calico-back..is very destructive to cabbages, radishes, and turnips in the Southern States.
calico-bass n. U.S. a species of sun-fish.
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1884 G. B. Goode Nat. Hist. Aquatic Animals 406 The calico Bass.
calico-bush n. the American mountain laurel ( Kalmia latifolia).
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > bay-tree and allies > [noun] > kalmia or American laurel
mountain laurel1759
ivy-tree1760
kalmia1765
lambkill1790
sheep-poison1790
sheep-laurel1810
calico-bush1814
wicky1901
sheep-kill1968
1814 F. Pursh Flora Amer. Septentrionalis I. 297 Kalmia latifolia..called Laurel or in the mountains Callico-bush.
1836 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Plants (rev. ed.) 356 Kalmia latifolia, Calico-bush.
1870 Amer. Natualist 4 217 Mountain Laurel Calico-bush, Spoon-wood..is one of the most beautiful shrubs ever created.
1914 L. H. Bailey Standard Cycl. Hort. II. 627/2 Calico bush: Kalmia.
1969 R. Hay & P. M. Synge Dict. Garden Plants 314/1 Kalmia (Ericaceae) latifolia. Mountain Laurel, Calico Bush.
calico-diaper n. (see quot.).
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1696 J. F. Merchant's Ware-house 12 Callico-Diaper..called so by reason it is made of Cotton, as the Callicoes are, and is wrought into little figures.
calico flower n. U.S. one or other species of Kalmia.
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1839 Monthly Chron. 3 513 The Kalmias are called by the Americans Calico flowers, a name admirably adapted to express the peculiar appearance of the flower.
calico-lawn n. Obsolete ? a fine quality of calico, lawn of calico or cotton.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > cotton > [noun] > calico > types of
calico-lawn?1592
shamiana1609
dungaree1613
percaulah1614
muslin calico1705
Wigan1875
limbo1891
finishing cloth1892
?1592 Descr. Carrack Madre de Dios The calicos were book-calicos, calico launes, broad white calicos, fine starched calicos, coarse white calicos, browne coarse calicos.
1683 London Gaz. No. 1791/4 Two striped Muslins or Callico Lawnes.
calico-printer n. one whose trade is calico-printing.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > [noun] > printing > calico printing > one who
printer1701
calico-printer1706
1706 London Gaz. No. 4264/4 William Shirwin..Callico-Printer.
1854 E. C. Gaskell North & South xix One of the half-dozen calico-printers of the time.
calico-printing n. the art or trade of producing a pattern on calico by printing in colours, in mordants which produce colours on being dyed, or by other process.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > [noun] > printing > calico printing
calico-printing1753
1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea II. xlii. 275 Sugar-baking and callicoe-printing are the great articles.
1867 Notes & Queries 3rd Ser. 11 186/1 In 1676 Calico printing..was invented and practised in London.
calico-tree n. U.S. (see quot.).
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1832 D. J. Browne Sylva Americana 191 The Mountain Laurel..indifferently bears the name of Mountain Laurel, Laurel, and Calico Tree.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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