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Definition: Pomoxys sparaides

Calico \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.]
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The importation of printed or stained colicoes
appears to have been coeval with the establishment
of the East India Company. --Beck
(Draper's
Dict. ).
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2. Cotton cloth printed with a figured pattern.
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Note: In the United States the term calico is applied only to
the printed fabric.
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Calico bass (Zo["o]l.), 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.
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