(textiles) A kind of roughcloth made from unbleached and not fully processedcotton, often printed with a bright pattern.
1832, Michael Faraday, “Experimental Researches in Electricity”, inPhilosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, volume122,→DOI,→JSTOR, page126:
This helix was covered withcalico, and then a second wire applied in the same manner.
2017 June 30, Ruth La Ferla, “In ‘The Beguiled,’ Pretty Confections Whipped Up to Seduce”, inThe New York Times[1],→ISSN:
Trussed in corsets, jawbone-high collars andcalicos that had seen better days, they have little enough to work with, their attempts at coquetry further constrained by their rigid mores of the day.
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