Word Meaning

calico definition and meaning

n. Plain white cloth made from cotton, but which receives distinctive names according to quality and use, as, super calicoes, shirting calicoes, unbleached calicoes, etc.
n. Cotton cloth printed with a figured pattern.
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.

Crossword clues for calico

- A cotton fabric
- Coarse cloth
- Coarse unbleached cotton fabric
- Cotton cloth
- Fabric used to make astrologcal icons
- Fabric used to make astrological icons
- Plain cotton fabric
- Printed cotton
- Spotted
- Strong cloth
- Strong material
- Unbleached cotton
- Unbleached cotton cloth
- White cotton material
- White cotton: piebald among felines