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say it: KAL-uh-koh
calico is an adjective and noun meaning "made of calico or resembling calico in being patterned". It carries 3 recorded senses.
made of calico or resembling calico in being patterned
“calico dresses”
“a calico cat”
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”
coarse cloth with a bright print
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for calico come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.