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calico 音标拼音: [k'ælək ,o] n. 印花棉布,白洋布 印花棉布,白洋布 calico adj 1: made of calico or resembling calico in being patterned; " calico dresses"; " a calico cat" 2: having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly; " a jester dressed in motley"; " the painted desert"; " a particolored dress"; " a piebald horse"; " pied daisies" [ synonym: { motley}, { calico}, { multicolor}, { multi- color}, { multicolour}, { multi- colour}, { multicolored}, { multi- colored}, { multicoloured}, { multi- coloured}, { painted}, { particolored}, { particoloured}, { piebald}, { pied}, { varicolored}, { varicoloured}] n 1: coarse cloth with a bright printCalico \ Cal" i* co\, n.; pl. { Calicoes}. [ So called because first imported from Calicut, in the East Indies: cf. F. calicot.] 1. Plain white cloth made from cotton, but which receives distinctive names according to quality and use, as, super calicoes, shirting calicoes, unbleached calicoes, etc. [ Eng.] [ 1913 Webster] The importation of printed or stained colicoes appears to have been coeval with the establishment of the East India Company. -- Beck ( Draper' s Dict. ). [ 1913 Webster] 2. Cotton cloth printed with a figured pattern. [ 1913 Webster] Note: In the United States the term calico is applied only to the printed fabric. [ 1913 Webster] { Calico bass} ( Zool.), an edible, fresh- water fish ({ Pomoxys sparaides}) of the rivers and lake of the Western United States ( esp. of the Misissippi valley.), allied to the sunfishes, and so called from its variegated colors; -- called also { calicoback}, { grass bass}, { strawberry bass}, { barfish}, and { bitterhead}. { Calico printing}, the art or process of impressing the figured patterns on calico. [ 1913 Webster]
Calico \ Cal" i* co\, a. Made of, or having the appearance of, calico; -- often applied to an animal, as a horse or cat, on whose body are large patches of a color strikingly different from its main color. [ Colloq. U. S.] [ 1913 Webster] |
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