Balanced plain-weave cotton or cotton-blend fabric, often with a small printed pattern.
Having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly.
1 The common soldiers sent out from Portugal received some pay in calico .
2 She looked up and saw a girl in a dirty calico dress.
3 The tulips are made of red calico covered with small yellow flowers.
4 It was manned by five islanders, dressed in shirt tunics of calico .
5 At present they wash only when in want of a little calico .
6 She was very plainly dressed in a one-piece gown of dark calico .
7 Several squaws in dirty calico dresses, squatted near by awaiting their turn.
8 The calico with roses on a green ground was in Sally's patchwork.
9 The calico cat came into the room and jumped into her lap.
10 His head dropped, and big tears splashed on the soiled calico shirt.
11 Drew fumbled with the pile, a flannel, the linen, and two calico .
12 There lay an old clay pipe and a roll of faded calico .
13 Their scanty green foliage will always remind me of a calico gown.
14 Long brown calico dress almost touching the floor, and big, lumbering shoes.
15 Mrs. B. made our copper-colored Cupidon a pretty suit of crimson calico .
16 A depot of calico and flannel was always ready, besides outer garments.
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