calico adj

1 made of calico or resembling calico in being patterned; "calico dresses"; "a calico cat"

2 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" [syn: motley, multicolor, multicolour, multicolored, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured] n : coarse cloth with a bright print [also: calicoes (pl)]

English

Etymology

From Calicut, in India, from where the cloth was originally exported.

Adjective

1. Having a pattern of red and contrasting areas, resembling the color of calico cloth.

   The calico cat had distinctive red and dark markings.

   The calico patterned tableclothes were supposed to make the restaurant look rustic, instead they made it look run down.

Synonyms

• tortoiseshell

Noun

1. A kind of rough cloth, often printed with a bright pattern.

Calico may refer to:

Textiles

• Calico (fabric), a plain-woven cotton textile

Cats

• Calico cat, Calico or Tortoiseshell is a common coloration for domestic cats

Business

• Calico Light Weapons Systems, a small firearms manufacturing company currently based in Hillsboro, Oregon
• Calico Liberty, a roller-delayed blowback-operated semi-automatic rifle or pistol
  • Calico M100, a blowback operated semi-automatic rifle/carbine (M100)
  • Calico M100P, a semi-automatic pistol
  • Calico M960, 9mm semi-automatic gun

People

• Calico Cooper (born 1981), American actress and the daughter of rock and roll musician Alice Cooper
• Calico Jack Rackham (died 1720), English pirate captain in the early 18th century
• Tyrone Calico (born 1980), American football wide receiver

Places

• Calico Mountains (California), located just north of Interstate 15 in the Mojave Desert, California
  • Calico, California, a ghost town located in the Mojave Desert region of Southern California
  • Calico and Odessa Railroad, a heritage railway in the ghost town of Calico, California
• Calico Mountains (Nevada)
• Calico Early Man Site, a possible archaeological site 15 miles NE of Barstow, California
• Calico Mills, one of Ahmedabad’s (India) earliest textile mills established in 1880
  • Calico Museum of Textiles, in the city of Ahmedabad, state of Gujarat in western India
• Calico Rock, Arkansas, a city in Izard County, United States
• Ghost Town & Calico Railway, a tourist railroad within Knott's Berry Farm, a theme park in Buena Park, California