| 单词 | calico ball |
| 释义 | > as lemmascalico ball 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. < as lemmas |
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