Meanings of calico wrapper in английском

Mrs. Mumpson shrieked and sought frantically to keep her calico wrapper from taking fire.

A ragged calico wrapper incased her tall, gaunt form, and altogether she did not make a promising hostess.

The mother was covered with a loose calico wrapper, and her face was concealed by a thick white veil.

Her gray hair was neatly combed, and her calico wrapper was open at the throat even on this cold day.

Presently the door opened and a gray head peered forth, then out stepped a thin figure in a blue calico wrapper.

Just then an old Indian woman clad in a calico wrapper, but bareheaded and barefooted, came down the road towards us.

She wore a faded red calico wrapper- ascrapof it had made the doll's frock-anda blue-checked apron with holes in it.

Stepping back to my own room, I brought out a pretty calico wrapper, which I presented to the little, dirty, blackened object.

Across the ward Old Maggie had donned her ragged slippers and a blue calico wrapper and shuffled to the foot of the emergency bed.

I want to write about the overalls on some railroad engineer, perhaps; or the blue calico wrapper that belonged, maybe, to a scrub woman.

The damaged garment was removed and partially immersed in turpentine, while Rebecca graced the festal board clad in a blue calico wrapper of Mrs. Cobb's.

The men wear a calico wrapper, three or four times folded round their bodies; and the women are clothed from their arm-pits to their knees.

But Miss Cornelia, who made her calls in calico wrappers, shook her head.

Two athletic men, in calico wrappers, have a net thrown over them, covered with all manner of bright-colored stripes.