Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
calico .
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Examples
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What a beeyooteemuss callico whit a beeyoo teemus tummy!
..blah..blah..I know…I know.. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Several attempts have been made to arrange and class the different species of colouring matters employed for dying and callico printing; but none seems to accord with, or give any just ideas of, their several natures and properties.
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Sent to Lane & Webb callico 17 yds. & 2 pr. black cotton stockings amount $5.50 have no bill for the goods. got on the 8th
Ferry Hill Plantation journal : January 4, 1838-January 15, 1839, 1961
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The women wore callico dresses and the men wore ansenberg pants and shirts.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3 Work Projects Administration
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Easy-chairs also appeared at that date, usually as part of the bedroom furniture, and were covered with the stuffs of which the bed-hangings and window-curtains were made, such as "China," "callico," "camblet,"
Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881
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As it is French, callico two widths will make it wide enough and you must tear off the belt before you tear the widths in two the ballance [sic] will make the body and the piece I have torn off will make the sleeves.
Kimberly family papers, Kimberly Family 1864
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It is the specaled [sic] callico, you see I began to cut it out, but afterwards thought I had better not so I send it so.
Kimberly family papers, Kimberly Family 1864
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There is enough to make a full dress in the pink lawn and the pink callico.
Kimberly family papers, Kimberly Family 1864
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It generally consists of a long piece of callico, or muslin, wrapped loosely round the
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It generally consists of a long piece of callico, or muslin, wrapped loosely round the body, somewhat in the form of a highland plaid.
The Life of Olaudah Equiano Or Gustavus Vassa The African Equiano, Olaudah 1789
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