0 a heavy plain cloth made from cotton: --
I found a picture of my grandmother in a calico dress.
Hospitalized servicemen wore an approximation of uniform in blue calico.
1 a cotton cloth with a printed pattern --
He is very learned in calico; he does not know much about corn.
Those responsible came back and said that they would give it out in flannel and calico.
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.
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.
Sturdy wools fell out of favour, to the distress of moralists, who accused the consumers of calico of economic treason.
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.
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 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.
