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CALICO , a See also:general name given to See also:plain See also:cotton See also:cloth . The word was spelt in various forms, including " See also:calicut," which shows its derivation from the radian See also:city of Calicut or Kolikod, a seaport in the See also:presidency of See also:Madras, and one of the See also:chief ports of intercourse with See also:Europe in the 16th See also:century, where cotton cloths were made . The name seems to have been applied to all kinds of cotton cloths imported from the See also:East . In See also:England it is now applied particularly to See also:grey or bleached cotton cloth used for domestic purposes, and, generally, to any fairly heavy cotton cloth without a See also:pattern . In the See also:United States there is'a See also:special application to printed cloth " of a coarser quality than See also:muslin." In England " printed calico " is a comprehensive See also:term . |
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