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Meanings of red calico in English

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Usage of red calico in English
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The tulips are made of red calico covered with small yellow flowers.
Quilts: Their Story and How to Make Them
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She soon arrayed me in my red calico dress, spotted with yellow stars.
The Morgesons: A Novel
3
Cushions and curtains of turkey- red calico brightened the homely shack.
The Best Short Stories of 1920, and the Yearbook of the American...
4
She was dressed in a stiff, dark red calico gown, with a white apron.
Balcony Stories
5
When I got there I asked for red calico.
The Magic Egg, and Other Stories
6
For gifts, they most desired red calico and chocolate.
A Truthful Woman in Southern California
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Of the first salesman I saw I inquired if they kept red calico like my sample.
The Magic Egg, and Other Stories
8
Here was a rude pulpit, and back of it a much-disfigured virgin, dressed in turkey- red calico.
A Mountain Woman
9
The lady looked at me rather strangely, but measured off five yards of Turkey red calico.
The Magic Egg, and Other Stories
10
There are a great many manufactories about here, and I suppose red calico must be cheap.
The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912
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Then she took down a great roll of red calico and spread it out on the counter.
The Magic Egg, and Other Stories
12
Free Drinks to all Weary Travellers', in white wadding on red calico, like Christmas decorations in church.
The Wouldbegoods: Being the Further Adventures of the Treasure S...
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My wife had bought her red calico not long before, and there must be some to be had somewhere.
The Magic Egg, and Other Stories
14
At the farther end of the church a long window entirely covered by a red calico curtain produced a magical effect.
The Village Rector
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She wore a faded red calico wrapper- ascrapof it had made the doll's frock-anda blue-checked apron with holes in it.
Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man
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The stripes were formed of cotton cloth and red calico, of which last gorgeous material no possible place in California is ever destitute.
The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52
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