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. 283^v 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. Ttt6^v 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. D^v 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.

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.

1859 S. Smiles Self-help 36 Robert Peel..began the domestic trade of calico-making.

calico-smoother n.

calico-trade n.

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.).

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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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).

单词	calico
释义	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. ΘΚΠ 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. 283^v 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). ΘΚΠ 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. Ttt6^v 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). ΚΠ 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. D^v 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. Π 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. Π 1859 S. Smiles Self-help 36 Robert Peel..began the domestic trade of calico-making. calico-smoother n. calico-trade n. Π 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. ΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 1884 G. B. Goode Nat. Hist. Aquatic Animals 406 The calico Bass. calico-bush n. the American mountain laurel ( Kalmia latifolia). ΘΚΠ 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.). Π 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. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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.). ΚΠ 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). < n.1540
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