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calico

Cotton fabric: in the USA, it is a printed cotton; in the UK, a plain woven cotton material. The name derives from Calicut, India, an original source of calico.



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There was one passenger in the coach,--a small dark-haired person in a glossy buff calico dress.
At the end of half an hour he was offering "Two ten fathoms calico and ten ten sticks tobacco" to the boy who first heard "pickaninny dog sing out.
We bound it between pasteboards, which I covered with brilliant calico, representing scenes from a circus.
 
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