Bible Dictionaries
Calico

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) Cotton cloth printed with a figured pattern.

(2):

(n.) Plain white cloth made from cotton, but which receives distinctive names according to quality and use, as, super calicoes, shirting calicoes, unbleached calicoes, etc.

(3):

(a.) 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.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Calico'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​c/calico.html. 1828.