Calico is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CALICO in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a brightly printed coarse cotton cloth
• a type of cotton cloth, typically plain white or unbleached
• printed cotton fabric
• white cotton fabric
• Plain white cloth made from cotton, but which receives distinctive names according to quality and use, as, super calicoes, shirting calicoes, unbleached calicoes, etc.
• Cotton cloth printed with a figured pattern.
• coarse cloth with a bright print
ADJECTIVE:
• (of an animal, typically a cat) multicoloured or piebald
• Made of, or having the appearance of, calico; -- often applied to an animal, as a horse or cat, on whose body are large patches of a color strikingly different from its main color.
• made of calico or resembling calico in being patterned
• having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a cotton fabric

Words related to CALICO

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Words that contain CALICO

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How to use CALICO in a sentence

• Then he sold it to people who made it into calico, muslin, and other things, which we need to use and wear.
• She robbed the windows of their lawn and muslin curtains, replacing them with gaudy calico from the trade-store, and made herself several gowns.
• I had a shilling of my own, and with sixpence of it I bought a yard and a half of black calico at the post-office shop, and Mrs.
• Mounted on a calico pony of strikingly irregular design, a horseman had halted at the bend of a trail that led to the rear of the station.
• I found out that a poor fellow called Moliteum was shot dead two months ago by a white trader for stealing a bit of calico.
• He turned back into the room and saw Nance standing at the opposite entrance between the calico curtains, an old, battered, flickering lantern in her hand.
• This is usually made of some dark colored calico or gingham.
• He also sent her rolls of silk, which might replace the old-fashioned sable-skins, some damask, calico and the like.
• He was not a rich man, though he had made calico and had got into Parliament.
• In a month you could not have startled Calico with a pound of dynamite.
• But oh, the suffering of it! The mother took a long strip of calico, and wound it tightly round the little foot, bending the toes right under the sole.
• The machine-guns make a noise like a giant tearing calico.
• In one hand she held the lantern, and in the other stiffly extended before her, on a wad of calico reposed a magnificent pair of Yellow Emperors.
• The pair had been left clinging to the piece of calico.
• My boys buy them with beads or bolts of calico of mine.
• It was impossible to imagine the haughty beauty in a brown calico riding a high-spirited horse of the wilds.
• This young girl copied the slip in a little book she carried, and then she went away with the calico, the paper slip, and the money.
• The scene had a scriptural flavor that not even the blue overalls of the men nor the calico gowns of the women could altogether eliminate.
• Sally Tumlin’s pink calico gowns sowed a crop of nettles in the mind of the squaw.
• Patrician broadcloth and silk were the rare exceptions, generally ill-made and ill-worn, but they cordially associated with the great mass of plebeian tweed and calico.

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