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  1. plural of calico
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It continued in textile design, particularly in whitework embroidery and some printed calicoes, into the mid-nineteenth century.
In 1700 an Act of Parliament was passed to prevent the importation of dyed or printed calicoes from India, China or Persia.
From cotton are made many qualities of unbleached, half-bleached, and bleached cloth, also calicoes, ginghams, muslins, nainsooks, cambrics, etc.
Printed calicoes were generally used for hangings and bedcovers, as well as for dresses in England, but in India the material was generally used only for garments.
Colonial New Englanders were also familiar with such floral motifs through imported calicoes and palampores imported from India.
The sixty-second spot stars an assortment of kittens — tabbies, calicoes, Siamese, and a dozen other breeds — in a variety of adorable vignettes.

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