calico English

Meaning calico meaning

What does calico mean?

calico

— adjective made of calico or resembling calico in being patterned calico dresses a calico cat

— noun coarse cloth with a bright print

— adjective (= motley, painted, particolored, piebald, pied) 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

Synonyms calico synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as calico?

calico English » English

varicoloured

varicolored

multicoloured

multicolour

multicolored

multicolor

multi-colour

multi-color

cloth

chintz

printed cotton

pied

piebald

particoloured

particolored

painted

multi-coloured

multi-colored

motley

cotton print

cotton

yard goods

unbleached muslin

star

print

polychromic

polychrome

polychromatic

plain cotton cloth

plain cloth

pepper-and-salt

grizzled

fur

cotton fabric

canvass

canvas

canequim

black and white

Topics calico topics

What do people use calico to talk about?

States Quality Light Color

Animal color, marking

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