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What (who) is CALICOES - definition
BALANCED PLAIN-WEAVE COTTON OR COTTON-BLEND FABRIC, OFTEN WITH A SMALL PRINTED PATTERN
Calico (fabric); Calicoes; Calicos; Calico-print; Colour-making in Calico Printing; Calico printing; Printing, Calico; Dipping in Calico Printing; Muslin (American English); Calico cloth; Calico printer; Calico (textile); CALICO; Calico History
![Sample of calico printed with a six-colour machine by Walter Crum & Co., from [[Frederick Crace Calvert]], ''Dyeing and Calico Printing'' (1878)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Calico sample Crum & Co..jpg?width=200 "Sample of calico printed with a six-colour machine by Walter Crum & Co., from [[Frederick Crace Calvert]], ''Dyeing and Calico Printing'' (1878)")
Calicoes
·pl of Calico.
calico
['kal?k??]
¦ noun (plural calicoes or US also calicos) Brit. a type of plain white or unbleached cotton cloth.
?N. Amer. printed cotton fabric.
¦ adjective N. Amer. (of an animal, typically a cat) multicoloured or piebald.
Origin
C16 (orig. also calicut): alt. of Calicut, a seaport in SW India where the fabric originated.
Calico
·noun Cotton cloth printed with a figured pattern.
II. Calico ·noun Plain white cloth made from cotton, but which receives distinctive names according to quality and use, as, super calicoes, shirting calicoes, unbleached calicoes, ·etc.
III. Calico ·adj 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.
Wikipedia
Calico
Calico (; in British usage since 1505) is a heavy plain-woven textile made from unbleached, and often not fully processed, cotton. It may also contain unseparated husk parts. The fabric is far coarser than muslin, but less coarse and thick than canvas or denim. However, it is still very cheap owing to its unfinished and undyed appearance.
The fabric was originally from the city of Calicut in southwestern India. It was made by the traditional weavers called cāliyans. The raw fabric was dyed and printed in bright hues, and calico prints became popular in Europe.
