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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: calico (0.01078 detik)
Found 3 items, similar to calico.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: calico kain mori
English → English (WordNet) Definition: calico calico n : coarse cloth with a bright print [also: calicoes (pl)] 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” [syn: motley, multicolor, multicolour, multicolored, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured] [also: calicoes (pl)]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Calico 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] 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.] [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 (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. [1913 Webster]

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