calico

Speech parts

1. calico - Noun

2. calico - Adjective

3. calico - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Plain white cloth made from cotton, but which receives distinctive names according to quality and use, as, super calicoes, shirting calicoes, unbleached calicoes, etc.

Cotton cloth printed with a figured pattern.

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

motley multicolored piebald pied speckled painted variegated mottled multicolor dappled multi-colored multicoloured multi-coloured particoloured multicolour
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Antonyms

solid plain monochrome colorless unbroken monochromatic
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Hypernyms

material fabric cloth textile

Phrases with the word

calico bean calico pony calico-printer bristly-calico

Derivatives

calicoes

Anagrams

accoil acocil colica

Examples

a jester dressed in motley Source: Internet

the painted desert Source: Internet

a particolored dress Source: Internet

a piebald horse Source: Internet

pied daisies Source: Internet

calico dresses Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

calicivirid calicivirus calicle calico aster calico bass calico bean