Associations to the word «Calico»
Noun
- Paper
- Cap
- Mountain
- Bag
- Flower
- Red
- Instruction
- Girlfriend
- Mile
- Seed
- Bed
- Sidney
- Neck
- Rice
- Clock
- Molly
- Supper
- Palm
- Robe
- Patch
- Price
- Bundle
- Pine
- Material
- Firearm
- Candy
- Skin
- Cottage
- Gun
- Sally
- Mine
- Inch
- Measuring
- Toe
- Butter
- Lancashire
- Carriage
- Sheep
- Kitchen
- Archaeology
- Grandmother
- Iron
- Elbow
- Katherine
- Gauge
- Barrel
- Silver
- Indian
- Button
- Selling
- Marking
- California
- Box
- Tribe
- Wine
- Suit
Adverb
Wiktionary
CALICO, adjective. Having a pattern of red and contrasting areas, resembling the color of calico cloth.
CALICO, noun. A kind of rough cloth, often printed with a bright pattern.
CALICO, noun. A cat with fur of the colors black, white and orange.
CALICO BASS, noun. A fish, the crappie.
CALICO CAT, noun. (US) A tortoiseshell and white domestic cat.
CALICO CATS, noun. Plural of calico cat
Dictionary definition
CALICO, noun. Coarse cloth with a bright print.
CALICO, adjective. Made of calico or resembling calico in being patterned; "calico dresses"; "a calico cat".
CALICO, adjective. 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".
Wise words
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.