0 a heavy plain cloth made from cotton:
Hospitalized servicemen wore an approximation of uniform in blue calico.
I found a picture of my grandmother in a calico dress.
1 a cotton cloth with a printed pattern
Her great-aunt was dressed in starched calico from neck to foot.
A young woman was deported for stealing two pieces of printed calico.
She robbed the windows of their lawn and muslin curtains, replacing them with gaudy calico from the trade-store, and made herself several gowns.
There was two old dirty calico dresses, and a sun-bonnet, and some women's underclothes hanging against the wall, and some men's clothing, too.
When, at a given point, all the maid-servants rise, whirl round in their calico gowns and turn their demure backs to me as they kneel in a row, I know not whether to laugh or cry.
