Exempel på calico

• Her great-aunt was dressed in starched calico from neck to foot.

• A young woman was deported for stealing two pieces of printed calico.

• a red and white spotted calico hat

• I want to buy a yard of calico, said Bill. 

• Nancy had admired that pink 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. 

• A new vocabulary of chintzes and calicoes, taffetas, muslins, ginghams and cashmeres entered everyday use.

• At times, the dualism is effective, as with the discussion of gentility and its links with the consumption of calicoes and silks.

• But the effects of scientific advancement will not be branded by the cheapening of silks, calicos and hardwares.

• The allegations were framed within a particularly gendered context, where luxury was equated with the feminine and calicos with a corruption of the social fabric.

• Between 1719 and 1720, the campaign against calico reached its peak.

• For days at a time, women who wore calico gowns did so at their peril.

• Long after the riots ended and the ban was in place, women quietly took out their calicos, wearing them when they could, looking for equivalent substitutes as these became available.

• In this context, as the legal and political campaign against calico took to the streets, women became the particular targets of polemical criticisms and physical attacks.

• Ehrlich conveniently compared the behavior of blood serum in the organism with the action of serum when used as a thickening agent in calico printing.

• In subsequent chapters, each is matched with the supply and consumption of key goods: respectively, silk and calicoes; spices and sugar; tea, coffee and sugar; coffee and tobacco; and tea.

• Sturdy wools fell out of favour, to the distress of moralists, who accused the consumers of calico of economic treason.

• Pamphleteers opposed their supposed penchant for calico which was assumed to have had a deleterious effect on certain branches of the textile industry, particularly the sale of woollens.

• Not one of them was allowed to marry before he had carried a load of ivory to the coast, and brought back one of calico or brass wire.

• Those responsible came back and said that they would give it out in flannel and calico.

• He is very learned in calico; he does not know much about corn.