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印花棉布,白洋布
资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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.]
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.]
The importation of printed or stained colicoes
appears to have been coeval with the establishment
of the East India Company. --Beck
(Draper's
Dict. ).
2. Cotton cloth printed with a figured pattern.
Note: In the United States the term calico is applied only to
the printed fabric.
{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.
资料来源 : WordNet®
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)]
资料来源 : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing
Calico
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